I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.

I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.