The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.