I'm always terrified when I'm writing.
I still don't consider myself a fashion girl.
Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
My religion is to live - and die - without regret.
Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.
In reading we must become creators.
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Anything that gets children reading is fine.
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
Secrets are lies by another name.
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Give your weakness to one who helps.