I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.