I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.