Hope for the best, expect the worst.

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from "The Lady of the Haunted House

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.