Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.