"When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook"

"Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories."

"Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have."

"The passage he was to read was from Revelations — or Obfuscations, as he preferred to call them. Reading it over on the train from Cambridge, he had felt a strange desire to build a time machine so th…"

"When the native hears a speech about Western culture he pulls out his knife—or at least he makes sure it is within reach. The violence with which the supremacy of white values is affirmed and the aggr…"