Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!