Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't.

There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

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

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.