“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.”

“There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.”

“The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”

“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”

“It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the wor...”