Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.

Health is the ability to realize our avowed and unavowed dreams.

Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

I don't think anyone knows why people like [Twilight]. I don't think even the fans know why they connect with it the way they do. It's a visceral thing.

Change is always subjective.