It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia WoolfWe live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
Virginia WoolfFor the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
Virginia WoolfTo evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world.
Virginia Woolf