Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

- Anatole Broyard

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate wit…

- Anatole Broyard

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

- Anatole Broyard

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

- Anatole Broyard

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

- Anatole Broyard

Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where…

- Anatole Broyard

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

- Anatole Broyard

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

- Anatole Broyard

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

- Anatole Broyard