"Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.”

“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.”

“Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”

“There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

“I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.”

“When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.”

“When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.”

“Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.”