New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

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.