The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

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

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.