She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership)..

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar o….

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside..

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas pres….

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women..

Women's weapon, water-drops..

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs..

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature..

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York..

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation..

But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light….

[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crac….

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the mus….

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark..

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. Th….

Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a w….

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day….

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed..

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the….

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out..