"Cities force growth and make men talkative..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.”

“The poor are only they who feel poor.”

“The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.”

“Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.”

“It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.”

“Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.”

“If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep.”

“Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.”

“My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.”