New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars….

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit..

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread..

Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves..

of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live….

You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist amasses facts, ane….

There's no privacy for the violently dead..

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-….

The newer education put stress on culture ... Saturday mornings, the young were brushed and washed, forced into blue cheviot suits, and dragged to ch….

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours..

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles..

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time..

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future..