You are like a fire: you warm me. - Robertson Davies

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.