I was too absorbed to be responsive

America is a willingness of the heart.

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

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

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