Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.