“When I think of New York City, I think of all the girls, the Jewish girls, the Italian girls, the Irish, Polack, Chinese, German, Negro, Spanish, Russian girls, all on parade in the city. I don't k...”

“I'm older now, I'm a man getting near middle age, putting on a little fat and I still love to walk along Fifth Avenue at three o'clock on the east side of the street between Fiftieth and Fifty-seve...”

“I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?”

“I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.”

“Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap.”

“I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.”

“I will find you.In the farthest corner, I will find you.”

“The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”

“It's written, 'seek and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'.Otherwise, you will end up searching everything everywhere forever.”

“I can't change it now, and besides, I like who those years made me into,”

“When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.”

“If the teachings of the early Christians changed Rome and the entire Roman Empire, we cant point to any great change that the teachings coming from our pulpits today are producing upon our world in...”

“Never wish to be somebody. You never know what they are made up of.”