“ To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. 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 you live...in our wanderlust, we are lovers lookin… Anatole Broyard
“ There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. Anatole Broyard
“ Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. Anatole Broyard
“ A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a room. A bookcase is as good as a view, as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns… Anatole Broyard
“ I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books--I’m talking about my friends and myself--went beyond love. It was as… Anatole Broyard
“ When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached. Anatole Broyard
“ Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other. Anatole Broyard
