Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.