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.

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

Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.

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.

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.