Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. GERTRUDE STEIN Reliable
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do. GERTRUDE STEIN PoetryWordsWriting
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. GERTRUDE STEIN