In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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.
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.