Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.