In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.

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

Near a war is always not very near.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

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

The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.