But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

I have had my vision.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.