Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.