46 Quotes by Alexander Theroux

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

Art creates the Eden where Adam and Eve eat the serpent.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

There were words on our lips that in our loneliness alone wanted utterance, and the need by itself virtually created the feeling.

Blue-shirt (Blauserk in Inuktitat, the Inuit language), or Mykla Jokull, now known as Gunnbjorn's Peak (12,500 feet)--the great metaphorical centerpiece in William T. Vollmann's saga-like novel The Ice-Shirt--is the great glacier in Greenland used as a landmark by Erik the Red in sailing west from Snaefellsness.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.