"Oh, I knew what was wrong with me, right enough; I wanted to be an intellectual, to escape from everything Mamusia an…"

"Too much cleanliness is an enemy to creation, to speculative thought."

"Autumn, to me the most congenial of seasons: the University, to me the most congenial of lives."

"As I walked down the avenue of maples that leads toward the University Bookstore I was as happy as I suppose it is in…"

"McVarish always reminds me of the fairy-tale about the girl out of whose mouth a toad leapt whenever she spoke. He co…"

"However much science and educational theory and advanced thinking you pump into a college or a university, it always …"

"I'm getting on with the work that will eventually make me a Doctor of Philosophy." "Ah, that blessed degree that stam…"

"What really shapes and conditions and makes us is somebody only a few of us ever have the courage to face: and that i…"

"McVarish lectured dully; his stuff was good but he was too much the scholar to make it interesting, lest somebody sho…"

"But like everybody else, as Hollier says, I live in a muddle of eras, and some of my ideas belong to today, and some …"