“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”

“It is very odd to be standing in a locked room in the Penitentiary, speaking with a strange man about France and Italy and Germany. A travelling man. He must be a wanderer, like Jeremiah the peddler. But Jeremiah travelled to earn his bread, and these other sorts of men are rich enough already. They go on voyages because they are curious. They amble around the world and stare at things, they sail across the oceans as if there's nothing to it at all, and if it goes ill with them in one place they simply pick up and move along to another.”

“There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.”

“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”

“when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects”

“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.”