“In Usable Truths, Irving Feldman joins
Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Blake, Emerson and a handful of other epigrammatists
who alert us, with their laconic wit and wisdom, to the mansions that the mind
can build in and from the smallest rooms of incisive thought. These nuggets
contain a trove of riches.” —Willard Spiegelman, Hughes Professor of English,
Emeritus, at Southern Methodist University