A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.