“Intelligent and beuty... Nobody use”

“Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.”

“Once you're out here in the world, nobody cares where you used to live. Who you are, that's what counts.”

“Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.”

“Cunt again? It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued.”

“It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.”

“And there was a beutiful viewBut nobody could seeCause everybody on the islandWas saying Look at me! Look at me.”