I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.

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

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

The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.