There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.

Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.