Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do i... - Virginia Woolf

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."

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

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."

"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

"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"