Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.