A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

[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?

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

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

Infants are interesting only to their parents.