“Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.”

“She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.”

“It was the stupidity of virility that impressed me--& how, having made those convenient railway lines of convention, the lusts speed along them unquestioning.”

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame”

“The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.”

“For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.”

“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”