Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.