“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.”

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”

“Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.”

“Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.”

“If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?”

“You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”

“"Did you ever taste beer?" "I had a sip of it once," said the small servant. "Here's a state of things!" cried Mr Swiveller, raising his eyes to the ceiling. "She never tasted it — it can't be tasted in a sip!"”

“The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.”

“Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.”