Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

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

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

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

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

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.

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.

What are men? Children who doubt.

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough

People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.