Quotes by : Howard Jacobson

An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in....

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

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

If that made him heavy company sometimes, so be it. Who decreed that life was to be one long rowdy masquerade....

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

There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic....

Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't....

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....

I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you might....