he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

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.