"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human integrity has been ruined by the fall, and that I am a member of the ruined species."

"The true artist will always be a pauper."

"Coquetry, like a regular army, but with its more formidable implements reserved in the background, is in the front and always ready for action."

"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."

"It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneli…"