92 Quotes by Joshua Cohen

The only thing worse than an Aussie or Kiwi intonation is its intermittent use. When it’s Auckland talking, or Melbourne, fine. But when a snatch of downunder drawl erupts from the mouth of a Euro, it’s like blood in your urine.

But death on the page is just a typo, I said: You can’t say for example, She is dead–“she” no longer is. You can’t say for example, She was dead–death itself, a condition coterminous with eternity, renders the past tense inaccurate.

The best thing about search is you always find what you want. The worst thing about search is you never find what you do not want.

The wife said, “That’s what it said in the pamphlet: follow in the footsteps of Jesus – but it didn’t say how many steps.

The chips were the enablers, limited pellets of silicon that served an apparently unlimited range of functions, as like a single snackfood delivering the tastes of chocolate, vanilla, pork rind, popcorn, pretzel, and chip in every bitesized bite.

All books have to be researched, but readable books have their research buried.

Women, because what are they worth? Men, because what are they worth? Music, because what is it worth? and, more importantly with music, what exactly is the it?

By the highway, the Hudson – the library books straining at their delibags, corners poking. Straining my arms, throttling my hands, the numb rewards of literacy.

Congress was just a gray repository that got its OS replaced with each election.