“I know how to make an impression. Not necessarily a good one.”

“You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.”

“It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.”

“If one can know how good a city is by its smell, one should know how good a society is by the women's status.”

“One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.”

“Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making.”