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.

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

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

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?