"I desire the things which will destroy me in the end."

"I am so utterly a success. I am so utterly a failure."

"I have a theory that it is impossible to be a good writer and a good person."

"I couldn't be a man. I couldn't be a woman. I couldn't be anything."

"I want to be a woman who is a wife and mother, but also a famous writer. I want to have a life of my own, and not just be an appendage to a man."