There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.