Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.
Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.
Biology is destiny only for girls.
Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade.