“Beware of affect adorning vêtement of effect.”

“Sometimes tyranny isn't so subtle or creative.”

“Slander is the first bastion of incompetency.”

“Beware. Beware. Beware of the big, green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big, fat snails. Beware. Take care. Beware.”

“Fiction is most effective when its themes are unspoken. An ideal fiction has a kind of thematic ghostliness, whereby the novel marks its meanings most strongly as it passes, as it disappears, rather as on a street snow gets dirtier, more marked, as it disappears.”

“Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.”

“She has no idea. The effect she can have.”