I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

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.

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

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.

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.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.