The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

To See What Is Right And Not Do It Is A Lack Of Courage.

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

WTF is praying gonna do for Vegas? Apparently God likes mass shootings.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

The greatest rewards lie in the unknown.

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.

Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"

In The Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King