It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.