New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

God is a name we give to love.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

‎"The best of men are just men at best.

There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might!

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement

An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.