Vita Sackville-West

"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."

"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."

"I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong."

"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong."