There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.