We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.