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

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

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

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

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

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.