Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Affectations can be dangerous.