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.

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.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.