“I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.”

“Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.”

“To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.”

“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”

“I never turn down a drink. Among friend's it's always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say but brandy is still brandy. You'll find that in the Talmud too.”

“There is nothing in the world, I tell you, so maddening as a person who doesn't answer when you abuse him. You shout and you scold, you are ready to burst a gut, and he stands there and smiles....”

“No matter how bad things get, you've got to go on living, even if it kills you.”