Quote by Eugène Ionesco

“[D}o not ask me to choose classical philology over industrial catering when they both seem such powerful fun; I want to be a forensic…

— Evan Dara

“And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“William was deeply humiliated. I tried to comfort him; I told him that for three days he had been looking for a text in…

— Umberto Eco

“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.”

— Raymond Chandler

“Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.”

— Janet Wallach

“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.”

— B.S. Murthy

“You could, if so inclined, read more Greek texts in the original Greek than the most prestigious Greek nobleman of classical times.”

— Kevin Kelly

“There was, as she put it, nothing to stop me. So I followed the path of educated misfits through the ages and got a…

— Hari Kunzru

“Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.”

— Jack Gantos

“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Poetic spirits didn't need stuff like mathematics; math eroded you and made you ordinary.”

— Patricia Geary

“Who rebels with mathematics?”

— Khaled Hosseini