There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.