No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

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

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.

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.