If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.