Vita Sackville-West

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.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.