
“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
John Banville: Using words to paint pictures of "magical" Prague (2006)
“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
1960s, Address to Cornell College (1962)
Two Years Later: Mexico City Return
Queer: A Novel (1985)
“Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
"An Interview with former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul" in LA Times High School Insider https://highschool.latimes.com/carnegie-mellon-university/an-interview-with-former-u-s-ambassador-to-russia-michael-mcfaul/ (30 August 2019)
“There is something beautiful about virtue, Captain. But I am just a poor guy.”
Scene VI.
Woyzeck (1879)
“Babies are like kittens, Julie, they grow into something much more sinister.”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 15 (p. 258)