I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

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.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.