Howard Jacobson Quotes

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

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

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

Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly...

Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentiment...

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

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

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

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

For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of th...

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

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

Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble...

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

There is a shop close to where I live, outside which, on certain nights of the month - I've no idea ...

I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous...

Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and arti...

The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wi...

So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same g...

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

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

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

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

How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved?...

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

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