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.

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 non-writing writer is a monster courting insa

You couldn't stand to see what terrifies warlords.

As long as you choose to persist and persevere, one day you would gladly look back and be very proud that you never gave up.

So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,'' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive.

Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.

Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.