Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

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.

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

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.

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.