London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.