Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

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.

To most women art is a form of scandal.