I've been married three times. I married the girl next door when I was 22, and I wasn't a good husband, but… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote:… — Howard Jacobson Nothing 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 Books Copy Share Image
Homesickness is universal. But Neapolitan homesickness goes back further than the accidents of domicile. It is nostalgia for love and loss themselves,… — 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… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person.… — Howard Jacobson Day Copy Share Image
You fall in love differently when you are young and far from home in a seductive place. You fall in love with… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
'Legality' is a mad phrase to use when it comes to the founding of nations. Australia was founded on illegality. For the… — 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… — Howard Jacobson Beauty Copy Share Image
When I see ultra-Orthodox Jews stamping all over Jaffa, or when I see them deciding who is a Jew, I think: 'What's… — Howard Jacobson Dream Copy Share Image
Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens… — Howard Jacobson Crime Copy Share Image
It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions… — Howard Jacobson Allusions Copy Share Image
If the great thing about the Internet is that it throws wide the doors of discussion to everyone, the bad thing about… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
You cannot exercise and be amused about it. You cannot integrate the dying bug into your core workout and hold to the… — Howard Jacobson Body Copy Share Image
I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I used to… — Howard Jacobson Age Copy Share Image
The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as… — Howard Jacobson Books Copy Share Image
My mother's side taught me to be a little bit afraid of everything. For a long time, I was quiet and cautious.… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there… — Howard Jacobson Art Copy Share Image
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 Israel Copy Share Image
You don't have to believe the electorate secretly hankers for a dose of Marxist-Leninism to accept that there are deep levels of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
With 'J', at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of… — Howard Jacobson Comedy Copy Share Image
You don't have to be in pursuit of a body beautiful to wish yourself to be the flexuously willowy creature you once… — Howard Jacobson Beautiful Copy Share Image
I've always said if a woman is looking for a good husband, she should go for a Jewish man past 60. Jewish… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the… — Howard Jacobson Being Copy Share Image
“Before he met Finkler, Treslove had never met a Jew. Not knowingly at least. He supposed a Jew would be like the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Things happen in 'If This is a Man' that are beyond ordinary daily experience, but it is still us to whom they… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“They didn't think he was simple-minded. If anything they thought him a little too clever. But there are times in the history… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author… — Howard Jacobson Books Copy Share Image
Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to… — Howard Jacobson Art Copy Share Image
Trump can be damned to all hell with his enclosed little world in which no thought is possible. But it's the encouraging… — Howard Jacobson America Copy Share Image
