Djuna Barnes

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward. ”

Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian? ”

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ”

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. ”

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. ”

To love without criticism is to be betrayed. ”

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. ”

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. ”

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty. ”

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart. ”