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

About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

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.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!