I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common Law.

The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off.