Erin

“Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of morning. The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“Not everyone strives to be fashionable. I don't, and I believe I succeed.”
― Joseph Epstein, Snobbery: The American Version – The National Bestseller Skewering Elitism in Food, Fashion, and Politics

“There's more to life than books, you know - but not much more.”
― the Smiths

“And no reason to talk about the books I read but I still do...”
― Morrissey