[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.
When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Excess is the common substitute for energy.
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.