One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

I want to live quietly.

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.