Margaret Caroline Anderson

"Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim — for self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truths — when all you're really doing…"

"It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for political conversation."

"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."

"I was born to be an editor, I always edit everything. I edit my room at least once a week. Hotels are made for me. I can change a hotel room so thoroughly that even its proprietor doesn't recognize it…"

"How can anyone be interested in war? — that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its incon…"

"People with heavy physical vibrations rule the world."