It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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

I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.