I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.