I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.

[As one highway engineer put it,] We were going by the book, but the damned mountain couldn't read. ... Every noble work is at first impossible.

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

Macaulay is well for a while, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

It may not be the grandest job. I feel that every street that's clean, that makes it easier for the city to come back.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.