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

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

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

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

Matthew,' she said, 'have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?' For a moment he did not answer. Taking up the decanter he held it to the light. 'Robin can go anywhere, do anything,' Nora continued, 'because she forgets, and I nowhere because I remember.' She came toward him. 'Matthew,' she said, 'you think I have always been like this. Once I was remorseless, but this is another love — it goes everywhere; there is no place for it to stop — it rots me away.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.