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.

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.

The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

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.

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

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.