“You're our Marcel Proust, Mr. Zuckerman."Zuckerman laughed. It wasn't exactly how he saw it.”
“Gone were the days when Zuckerman had only to worry about Zuckerman making money: henceforth he would have to worry about his money making money.”
“Jesus, I thought Zuckerman was cheating in you, Chief.”
“If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.”
“My idea of Hell is to be stuck in a library where all the books were authored by Marcel Proust.”
“Zuckerman, sucker though he was for seriousness, was still not going to be drawn into a discussion about agents and editors. If ever there was a reason for an American writer to seek asylum in Red China, it would be to put ten thousand miles between himself and those discussions.”