“ J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like Huck a youthful runaway from a world of adult hypocr… David Lodge
“ Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children and life is the other way around. David Lodge
“ Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. David Lodge
“ Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun. David Lodge
“ To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big fan-jet engines rising in pitch, as the plane they are sitting in swivels at the end of the runway and, straini… David Lodge
“ To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itsel… David Lodge
“ It's a special form of scholarly neurosis,´ said Camel. `He's no longer able to distinguish between life and literature.´ David Lodge
“ London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate) of Flat 21, Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, the distinguished author is dying - slowly, but… David Lodge
“ As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of literature. They seemed to him vague, fickle, irresponsible creatures, who wallowed in relativism li… David Lodge
