the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

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

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.