I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

I want to live quietly.