The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

FREEDLEY: Will I feel better after I take it? DR. FITCH (coldly): I, am a physician, Freedley, not an astrologer. If you want a horoscope, there's a gypsy tearoom over on Lexington Avenue.

If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork you into adventure or, by the same token, may not.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.

I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.