The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.
Mary MacLaneOne must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.
Mary MacLaneI do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
Mary MacLaneExcept two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.
Mary MacLane