the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

things never seem as bad as they are.

... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.