Never hurry and never worry!

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.

I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.