We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.