48 Quotes by Joseph O'Neill

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that’s intimate. I love books where you feel you’re having a romance with the writer.

Each of her soothing utterances battered me more grievously than the last – as if I were traveling in a perverse ambulance whose function was to collect a healthy man and steadily damage him in readiness for the hospital at which a final and terrible injury would be inflicted.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one’s life?