Nora will leave that girl some day; but though those two were buried at opposite ends of the earth, one dog will find them both. - Djuna Barnes

She was broad and tall, and though her skin was the skin of a child, there could be seen coming, early in her life, the design that was to be the weather-beaten grain of her face, that wood in the work; the tree coming forward in her, an undocumented record of time.

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.