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.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

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.

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

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