To be a Jew is a destiny

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.