One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.