when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking beans up your nose. ... you know the…

- Helen Eustis

What you were yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will be tomorrow.

- Helen Eustis

It isn't ever the world you fight. Always, always, it's yourself.

- Helen Eustis

when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather than reality. On paper one can un…

- Helen Eustis

Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision.

- Helen Eustis