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

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

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 read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

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

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

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