Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.