“Echo was becoming essential, like air.”
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. ”
“And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed.”
“As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.”
“The essential absurdity of football - that it has become so important - is nine-tenths of the poetry.”