A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever