55 Quotes by David Lodge

Niciodata n-am visat mult. Ceea ce inseamna din cate inteleg ca pur si simplu nu-mi amintesc visele, fiindca de visat visam tot timpul cat dormim sau cel putin asa se spune. E ca si cum as avea un televizor la care nu se uita nimeni si care imi palpaie in cap cat e noaptea de lunga. Canalul viselor. As vrea sa pot sa trag toata chestia asta pe video. Poate ca atunci mi-as da cat de cat seama ce se intampla cu mine. Si nu ma refer la genunchi, ci la cap. La minte. La suflet.

We might have been able to say 20 years ago that it was unanticipated consequence, but we know now that a shipload could bring in a bunch of invasive species into the Great Lakes.

She was a very funny writer but also a very thoughtful one. She made writers think and she made readers think. She was constantly playing on the difference between God and the writer.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

Every decoding is another encoding.