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

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.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

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

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

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

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.