But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

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.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

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

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.