For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.