“Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.”

“Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”

“Balzac, kendini romantik sanan genç kızların, saçma sapan hayallerini beslemek için okudukları ikinci sınıf bir romancıdır. - Selim Işık”

“In a short story by Chekhov or a novel by Balzac he found mysteries which, so far as he was aware, did not exist in any spy thriller. 35”

“The anecdote appears in Théophile Gautier's 1859 biography of Balzac. I wondered if it could be shown that Babel had read Gautier. Then I wondered whether there was anything to eat at home. There wasn't. I got in my car and was driving down El Camino Real when my cell phone started ringing.”

“I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him to one side, and with the ardour and earnestness of my eighteen years I fell in love with one author after another: Flaubert, Gogol, Melville, and even Romain Rolland.”