If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.