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

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.

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.

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.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.