And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

What you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that it is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.It is an awfully lonesome business, and, as you know, I never wanted you to go into it, but if you are going into it at all, I want you to go into it knowing the sort of things that took me years to learn.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

The rich are different from us.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.