David Lodge Quotes

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

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.