If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

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

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