The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff Quotes

“He was most alive at his business. He loved his wife, or thought he did. But did he miss Miriam? At first, yes, a lot, but by now days, whole weeks, went by when he didn’t think about her.”
― Joseph Epstein, The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

“what’s left of me if you take my work away? I’m not sure there’s anything left.” “Whaddya mean?”
― Joseph Epstein, The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

“Someone’s going to drag me out of someplace feet-first, so it might as well be from my place of business. Besides, if I retire, what do you suggest I do, chase golf balls with the rest of the morons? Maybe I should take courses in Chinese stamp collecting or the history of Peru at Loch in Kop University downtown?”
― Joseph Epstein, The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

“In Communist countries they take writers very seriously—so seriously that they often kill them.”
― Joseph Epstein, The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

“wasn’t like today, when if you don’t tell your kid you love him every twenty minutes you could go to jail for child abuse.”
― Joseph Epstein, The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

“College education is highly overrated. Take it from a man who dispensed it.”
― Joseph Epstein, The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

“Salzman didn’t believe that telling your troubles helped make them better, which was why he had never undertaken psychotherapy.”
― Joseph Epstein, The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

“felony muscles”
― Joseph Epstein, The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

“Hyde Park seemed a good place for high-IQ misfits, blessed with dazzling minds or imaginations but unequipped to take life straight on;”
― Joseph Epstein, The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

“Bette Newboldt, our unappeasable feminist whom, I’m fairly certain, God Himself could not have made happy;”
― Joseph Epstein, The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories