One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. - Gertrude Stein

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant tills it.