But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts; the interchange of ambitions--ambitions interwoven each with the other's or else inconsiderable--the mutual help and inspiration; and--overlook my artlessness--stuffed olives and cheese sandwiches at 11 p.m.

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

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

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.