Howard Jacobson Inspirational Quotes (7)

Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

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

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.