I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.