A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

art is the pulse of a nation.

This joy you feel is life.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.