“It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!”

“If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...”

“One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”

“What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.”

“Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?”

“I hear you calling and it's needles and pins (And pins)I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my nameDon't want to touch you but you're under my skin (Deep in)I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison”

“I would not begin to understand until I was a very old woman, and even then they would still be a mystery.”