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

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.

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.

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

We are same energies expressing in different forms!

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn.

One can buy anything with money except morality.

People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.

Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.