Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks. – Peter S. Prescott

Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. – Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. – Enrique Jardiel Poncela