there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.