Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men ar... - Virginia Woolf

"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

"The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."