I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.