"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be a woman. I am so glad I am not a woman."

"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

"I am fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall."

"The mind of a woman, for instance, is like a room with a thousand doors."