at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

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