Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.