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.

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

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

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

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.