Quote by Thomas Love Peacock

“...he wound up misbehaving in a manner so bold and outlandishly inappropriate that it wasn't clear to him if he had lost his mind…

— Paul Auster

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“His mind, shrinking from reality, ran for safety along these unimportant details.”

— Agatha Christie

“Cormick! Anything even remotely resembling trespassing and breaking and entering is going to look bad to a parole officer!' Cormick stopped, then turned and…

— Carrie Vaughn

“Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a man but the curious product…

— Jean Genet

“The big question was, what all was this society up to? They’d certainly been in and out of his office, as well as accidently…

— Kirsten Fullmer

“...he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation…

— Edith Wharton

“Once he was in the street the battle was won. I showed him a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus…

— C.S. Lewis

“what was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that…

— Philip Roth

“The real problem with his type of OCD--chronic fear of hurting other people--was that you thought so much about not running over children, not…

— Cammie McGovern

“Did his crime give others some kind of implicit permission to behave the same way, reverberating on and on into the future?”

— Elizabeth Garden

“Common sense got drunk and giddy when Olivia was on the premises. Maybe he should just raise a glass, too, and dub reason a…

— Kelly Moran