Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Time heals all things but one: Time.

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.