The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

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

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

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

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

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