Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

Love is always true and eternal.Love can't be untrue or occasional.

How do i do this?

You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.