Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.