In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.