It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

One must love everything.

Words belong to each other.

letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.