That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which..

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book..

I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss..

But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect'….

If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one..

If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west st….

As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably t….

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to..

I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of c….

For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you ….

Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't ….

I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the….

Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us..

Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America..

Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?.

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place..

Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you.

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish..

Slurring is the cursive of speech..

If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life..

For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense..