The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

I want to live quietly.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.