If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them.

Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.