Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, 'You are trying to silence us.' I don't deny there are some people who… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Words do not necessarily make us moral. And there have been presidents before who have stumbled over syntax and looked foolish when… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't knowledge I objected… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of things we have to go… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It's a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The novel is a thing of irony and ambiguity. That's at the heart of 'J', a world that has stopped arguing with itself. We… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
