"What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?"

“I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.”

“I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.321, Penguin

“If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours”

“There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.”

“My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'”

“People looking at what I do from the outside would think it was a secure world I live in, but it isn't. Just because you had a series last year, doesn't mean you will have one next. But I am quite happy with that.”

“And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.”

“To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.”