“It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anything. Not just to hitch a lift with the first fellow who looked as though he knew where he was going, but just to go.”
“A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.”
“If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.”
“A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.”
“I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!”