All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

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.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.