It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Time will explain.

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

Even though [Donald] Trump is reported to not read very much and to have a limited range of experience, he is often certain that he is right and boldly asserts the correctness of his positions.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

I'm restless and wildI fall, but I tryI need someone to understand.

The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.