A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

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 visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.