“Literature "has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads.”
“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.”
“The dead has always been within us, its just the graveyard where we lay to rest.”
“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
“I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.”
“Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.”