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

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

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.

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

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.