Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. i just lump everything in a great heap which i have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, i am ready to continue.

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

without you, dearest dearest I couldn't see or hear or feel or think - or live - I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.

Nothing could have survived our life.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.