I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.
I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.
When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.
I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.
A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.