Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.