Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets..

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay..

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to ext….

If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that ….

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels..

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books c….

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced..

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare..

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through..

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey..

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone..

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?.

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries..

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing..

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money..

Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free..

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others..

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?.

It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now..

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will..

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written..