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

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.

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

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.

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.

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.