“It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes, [T.S. Eliot] wrote, who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.”

“As George Russell defined a literary movement: Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.”

“There is only one thing left for you to do, John Sloan advised one artist. Pull off your socks and try with your feet.”

“[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,”

“It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.”

“There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.”

“Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.”

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”

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

“It is very easy to love alone.”

“A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create.”