My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.