Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument to discredit the new astronomy. Its elegance was interpreted as naivete...Just as the legendary inquisitor refused to look through Galileo's telescope, so most modern economists refuse to look at an analysis that might displace the conventional centre of their economic system.

They brought a streamlining modernity to Jensen designs.