The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your wind….

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting..

The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who t….

Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual ad….

I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square..

If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble ….

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals..

No man does right by a woman at a party..

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization..

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work..