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

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.

Every decoding is another encoding.

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.

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

Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.

Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.

Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.