Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

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.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

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.

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.

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

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.