Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

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

flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.