"Florrie nodded and indicated the sink:"P'rhaps you'd care to wash your hands?" "arrh no thank you M'am; I already done that against a tree before I came in here" said the Wrinkled Retainer"

"what moves is what is already moving. Sort of Newtonian."

"I knew a couple of things... during the war years they came out with reprints of all the Dumas novels, Moby…"

"Leftist memes are 25 pages long and have footnotes."

"James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. … an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere…"

"When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde."

"I am entitled to say of that opinion what any discriminating reader must think of it — that it was as foggy…"