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

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

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.

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

Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.

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.