"Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others."

“Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Instagram. Whatever it is you’re doing, it needs to stop while you write. A lot of the time (and this is fully goofy to admit), I’ll write with earplugs in — even if it’s dead silent at home.”

Source : "How I Write: Nathan Englander". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. March 27, 2013.

“Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.”

“The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire”

“A person is either a Christian or not; there is no in between state”

“The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.”

“Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.”

“Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.”

Source : William Trevor (1992). “Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria”, Penguin Group USA

“All of my marriages lasted seven years.”