America is a willingness of the heart.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

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

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.