It must be nice to think there is a true reality, says Miss Callendar. — Malcolm Bradbury

"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."

"Reading someone elses newspaper is like sleeping with someone elses wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it."

"Ive often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar."

"[A]nd the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone elses desert."

"It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity."