Every decoding is another encoding.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

I dream into my future.

Poor the man who has earned millions and millions of rupees but has never tasted the meaning of true love.

You can't live life being second best.

If you want to know the value of a day, ask someone who could not find food to eat or water to drink for a whole day when he is hungry.

Diplomacy was a long game.

I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?

Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.