It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.