Quotes

Passages collected from books, essays, and a diary.

• A Mathematician's Apology, G.H. Hardy (9)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll (55)
• The Art of War, Sun Tzu (18)
• the Bible (15)
• The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (28)
• the diary of Samuel Pepys (281)
• The Discomfort Zone, Jonathan Franzen (11)
• Donald Barthelme's stories (5)
• Essays in Idleness, Kenkō (32)
• George Orwell's essays and articles (11)
• the Gospels (39)
• Historia Calamitatum, Peter Abelard (49)
• The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten (13)
• Karlson-on-the-Roof, Astrid Lindgren (7)
• MASH, Richard Hooker (11)
• Milan Kundera's novels (26)
• Ogilvy on Advertising, David Ogilvy (11)
• On Photography, Susan Sontag (6)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays (40)
• Theodore Dalrymple's essays (13)
• Watching the English, Kate Fox (13)
• Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne (89)