“She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”

“After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.”

“She says it is a good thing to have no sense of how it is done in the things that amuse you. You should have one absorbing occupation and as for the other things in life for full enjoyment you should only contemplate results. In this way you are bound to feel more about it than those who know a little of how it is done.”

“So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use.”

“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”

“I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing”

“There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.”