Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself..

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies..

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile..

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you..

Happy is the day whose history is not written down..

There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly l….

She was heavier than he expected - women always are..

And another day is tucked under my wing..

once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as m….

A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would come blundering like a moth ….

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued..

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity..

Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops….

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musi….

noise is a pollution..

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on….

The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble to arrive till to-morrow….

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste..

When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people..

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not..

I wasn't educated. I was very lucky..