Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
A man is only as good as what he loves.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.