Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

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

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best