If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

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

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.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.