“The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.”

“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”

“If on a friend’s bookshelfYou cannot find Joyce or SterneCervantes, Rabelais, or Burton,You are in danger, face the fact,So kick him first or punch him hardAnd from him hide behind a curtain.”

“The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.”

“The best reason for disbelieving in God is that he never gave us enough time in life to pursue enough knowledge to find sufficient truth.”

“Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.”

“Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing.”