If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.

my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

My parents professed to believe in God, but I rarely heard his name mentioned unattached to 'damn' or 'sakes' or 'willing.

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter how long it's been since you last heard one.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

He will never let the trial surpass the strength He gives you, and at the very moment you think yourself overwhelmed by sorrow, He will lift you up and give you peace.

The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.