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.
Virginia WoolfThe weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
Virginia WoolfI'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.
Virginia WoolfIt is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf