*“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
*“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
*“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.”
*“It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.”
*“Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
*“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
*“If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.”
*“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”
*“Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
*“My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.”
*“Each time you happen to me all over again. ”
*“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”
*“If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.”
*Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
*How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
*I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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