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

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

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

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.