From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.