 Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. |
| In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. |
| I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy. |
| I think the story is my form. |
| Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food. |
| By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate. |
| 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. |
| One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. |
| 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. |
| We know the ideal isn't where the action is. |
| No one has really ever defined what a friend is. |
| I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me. |
| The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section. |
| I know how deeply slothful I am. |
| 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. |
| I am the heterosexual Truman Capote. |
| Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. |
| 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. |
| I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might. |
| My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't. |
