Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

What we need is endless courage.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.