“Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?”

“When you clean up a city, you destroy it.”

“Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.”

“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy”

“Why do you haggle your beauty?” I asked. “Why don’t you just live withit?” “Because people think it’s all I have. Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. Youdon’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you you know it’s forsomething else.”

“When you play the field selfishly everythingworks against you:one can’t insist on love ordemand affection.you’re finally left with whateveryou have been willing to givewhich often is:nothing.”

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”