Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.