Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

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

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

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.

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.