It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.