“Man is a mistake. He must go.”

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.

What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.

I could spend my whole day with you & still miss you the moment you leave.

True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know you are great, you have no need to hate.

I don’t know how to leave what has already left me.

At my age, there is really only one big surprise left, and I’d just as soon leave it a mystery.

Sometimes you need to leave the past in the past.

Maybe people aren’t leaving you; perhaps the Universe is living room in life for your people who are worthy of your energy.

When you leave a place, your sillage would fade but your vibes stay.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.