"All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?"

"I'm a Jewish Jane Austen."

"But here's something that puzzles me: is not victim-blaming counted among the worst of crimes wherever courses on fai…"

"In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur."

"In the highly improbable event of his being asked to nominate the one most un-Jewish thing he could think of, Sefton …"

"He was as sentimental as Hitler about applause and crowds."

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"