Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

America is one long expectoration.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters