I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

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

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.