By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.
I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.
I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.
I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.
One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
I am married to someone I love.
We know the ideal isn't where the action is.
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.
Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.