And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

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

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

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

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.