Quotes by : Howard Jacobson

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single....

A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for....

to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating....

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I used....

A life was owned by the person who lived it, he believed. What happened didn't always happen because....

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny....

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure....