“I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.”
“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”
“I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.”
“If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?”