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“... as numerous French politicians hoped they might do at an earlier stage in the Revolution? Why don’t they treat us the way we deserve? Of course, this peculiar pattern of love and hatred predated the French Revolution. During the Enlightenment, French writers developed the sort of inflated opinion of the English that was bound to lead to crushing ...”

“... Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald, a brutal and precipitate rubber baron, and the inspiration for Werner Herzog’s very different, white-suited Klaus Kinski in Fitzcarraldo. Stahl was a later emanation, imposing his own myths on those of the tribal people, successfully colonising the riverside settlements we were visiting, Pampa Michi and Bajo Marankiari, and ...”

“... in which he introduces us to his principal and only character. Right away one thought of Herzog, the super-kvetch of all kvetches. But here again, in his foreword to Bloom or ‘Bloom’, Bellow kept us guessing. As he phrased it (teasingly?): There are times when I enjoy making fun of the educated American. ...”

“... distinction: I’m not saying they were blood pearls, counterparts of today’s blood diamonds. I don’t have the evidence to support this grave charge. (We should be wary of applying the noun adjunct ‘blood’ to everything and anything that comes to us with the taint of exploited labour. It would devalue the usefulness of the term; there would be no end ...”

“... Say it!’ He trembled. ‘Yuh wanna play bad?’ ‘Now, you said it,’ she whispered. ‘Don’ forget, you said it.’ By the emphasis of her words, David knew he had crossed some awful threshold. ‘Will yuh tell?’ ‘No,’ he answered weakly. The guilt was his. ‘Yuh swear?’ ‘I swear.’ ‘Yuh know w’ea babies comm ...”