So complete is each neighborhood, and so strong the sense of neighborhood, that many a New Yorker spends a lifetime within the confines of an area sm… - E.B. White

Actually the city editor was one of the gentlest, most soft-spoken men I have ever encountered, and he did me a service I have always been grateful for. I got stuck one day on a story and finally, with the desperation of youth, I took my problem to him, although it seemed cheeky to bother him. How was I to express a certain thing? … I asked him how I could get around my difficulty.

He thought for a minute. Then he said, ‘Just say the words’.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

This was your mother’s door. She was loyal, brilliant, beautiful, and she was my friend. I will treasure her memory forever.