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

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.