Biology is destiny only for girls.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.