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

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.

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.

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

Don't wait for a reason to feel the joy. Life is for joy.

The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

Your feelings are your god.

We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

It's a sin to be tired.

Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.

She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice--a fetal smile--and it very nearly killed her.

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life.