“Becky, are you studying conversational Yiddish?”
“LIFE is the biggest bargain you can get.You get it for FREE! Yiddish saying”
“Yiddish is a cheerful language of not so happy people.”
“and my friend Karen remembersas a little girlstudying Hebrew she inquiredof her refugee tutor who stroked his beardand said in Yiddish "if there is a godor if there isn't a goda Jew studies"--isn't that a good storybeloved, but the woman in mesays that the poet liesthe poet can afford to lie”
“But all sudden things come from a deep study of conversion -- they are sudden only on the surface.”
“One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.”