New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

Forgotten is forgiven.

These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.

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