Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.