It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.