The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad baby.
John BanvilleI never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
John BanvilleAnd indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference.
John BanvilleIt's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
John Banville