“It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.”

“That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.”

“You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.”

“Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracte...”

“Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I cou...”

“Spiritual learning is easy when we realize and experience that everything that everyone said about spirituality is already in action within us!!! Seek within rather than outside.”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”

“Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and pers...”

“I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,And Yesterday, or Centuries before?The Feet, mechanical, go round O...”