"Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates."

"Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable."

"There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all."

"I love my love with a b because she is peculiar."

"Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary."

"Love is the skillful audacity required to share an inner life"

"Romance is everything."

"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it."

"Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet"

"After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said."

"Wake a question. Eat an instant, answer"

"How prettily we swim. Not in water, not on land, but in love."

"A light white, a disgras, an ink spot, a rosy charm."

"Remarks are not literature."

"It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,"

"What good are roots if you can't take them with you"

"A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation."

"...they do quote me, that means that my words and my sentences get under their skins although they do no know it."

"I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it."

"So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use."

"There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War."

"The seam in between is fenceless."

"A cool red rose and a pink cut pink, a collapse and a sold hole, a little less hot. - Red roses."

"I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made what I made."

"When is there some discharge when. There never is."

"Let me repeat what history teaches. History teaches."

"Twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time."

"The more you see how the country is the more you do not wonder why they shut the door. The women do in a way and yet if they did not it would be best."

"What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. - A substance in a cushion"

"A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not." (on Ezra Pound)"

"I wish to remain to remember that stanzas go on"

"A piece of crystal. A change, in a change that is remarkable there is no reason to say that there was a time."

"I write for myself and strangers."

"Some one who was living was almost always listening. Some one who was loving was almost always listening."

"There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures)"

"There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer."

"Sugar is not a vegetable."

"Cloudiness what is cloudiness, is it a lining, is it a roll, is it melting."

"If red is in everything it is not necessary. Is that not an argument for any use of it and even so is there any place that is better, is there any place that has so much stretched out."

"The composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented."

"Sarah Harrell "There is no use there is no use at all in smell, in taste, in teeth, in toast, in anything, there is no use at all and the respect is mutual."

"If you can do it, why do it."

"That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation."

"She answered him, there is nothing within you that fights itself and hitherto you have had the instinct to produce antagonism in others which stimulated you to attack."