Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.