Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.