Irving Layton Quotes

Progress of a marriage: "There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)

They dance best who dance with desire / Who lifting feet of fire from fire / Weave before they lie down / A red carpet for the sun.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."