How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.