"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"The seam in between is fenceless."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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,"

"Remarks are not literature."

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

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

"Wake a question. Eat an instant, answer"

"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."

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

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

"Romance is everything."

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

"Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary."