Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

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.

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.

I got these haters like, When he gon' stop? Maybe a minute after never, start ya clocks.

If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.