Quotes from J. G. Farrell

A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!

Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.