Every decoding is another encoding.

- David Lodge

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

- David Lodge

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

- David Lodge

Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect…

- David Lodge

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

- David Lodge

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

- David Lodge

Information is the religion of the modern world.

- David Lodge

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one…

- David Lodge

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

- David Lodge