I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

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

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.