When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

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 have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.