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. – Vita Sackville-West
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. – Vita Sackville-West
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. – Vita Sackville-West
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships – that made me feel that we had to change this country. – George Papandreou