Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.