"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely a…"

"Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship."

"It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people i…"

"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world."

"With sociology one can do anything and call it work."

"I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a real…"

"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do witho…"

"Well," said Dr Jochum, "you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to …"

"[A]nd the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was b…"

"You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience."