Tadek

“During the investigation, he tried a brief defense of his medical practice on the grounds that he had once assisted a vivisectionist in Tampa, Florida; and when this failed, he settled down to sullen grumbling about the Jews, earthly vanity, and quoted bits from Ecclesiastes, Alfonso Liguori, and Pope Pius IX, in answer to any accusatory question.”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

“All my life I have been trying to improve my German.
At last my German is better
—but now I am old and ill and don’t have long to live.
Soon I will be dead,
with better German.”
― Lydia Davis

“Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe