The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home.

At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.