If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.

[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.