There's always a kind of irresponsibility.

The habit of letting themselves go in their art, I suppose, makes them, in real life, throw things down so hard when they don't like them.

Living at high pressure is an art like music.

It alters the whole equilibrium, I suppose.

A woman like Al'mah would commit suicide, or kill a man, without realizing the true significance of it all." "Were you thinking that when you breakfasted with her ?" "Yes, when she was laughing and jesting--and when she kissed me good-bye." "When--she--kissed you--good-bye ?" Jasmine drew back, then half-glanced towards her stepmother in the other room.