David Lodge Quotes

Another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one’s peers.

I gave up screwing around a long time ago. I came to the conclusion that sex is a sublimation of the work instinct.

The world is a global campus, Hilary, you’d better believe it. The American Express card has replaced the library pass.

Conversation is like playing tennis with a ball made of Krazy Putty that keeps coming back over the net in a different shape.

He understood… Walt Whitman, who laid end to end words never seen in each other’s company before outside of a dictionary, and Herman Melville who split the atom of the traditional novel in the effort to make whaling a universal metaphor.

The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific.