I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.