I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself. 

When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.

He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.

Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.