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.

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.

Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.

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

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

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