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

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

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.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.