"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in ..." — Gertrude Stein

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.