A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.

The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs... And in their marble labyrinths there is an evil presence that hates warmth and sunlight.

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.