Children are unaccountable little creatures.

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.

I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.

Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?