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.

We do choose how we shall live

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

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.

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.