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.

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

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.