“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”

“Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.”

“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”

“English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.”

“Go on, do me in, you bastard cowards, I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this one.' I told Dim to lay off a bit then, because it used to interest me sometimes to slooshy what some of these starry decreps had to say about life and the world. I said: 'Oh. And what's stinking about it?”

“Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.”