I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

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.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.