I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

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

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

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.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

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