A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. 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.