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.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

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

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.