The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

I am married to someone I love.

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.