If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

This Sonia Gandhi thing should be seen in perspective - the people of India have an emotional attachment to the family. And why not? Three of the five Congress prime ministers belong to that family. The people empathise with the family name.

My family knows everything about me. There are no secrets, which can be suffocating, but I also find comfort in it. You can always reach out an arm, and an aunty will be close by to tell you that your skirt is too short.