The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

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

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

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.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.