Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.