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

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

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.

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.

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.

One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

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