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

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.