It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her