“come now, what's a reviewer?" I reasoned. "One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely...”

“What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”

“Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine.”

“The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? ”

“But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.”

“Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.”

“Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,”