“Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.”

“Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.""Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality.”

“A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.”

“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”

“One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”

“But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”

“Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”