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

When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.

I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else

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

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.