I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.