What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

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.

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.