92 Quotes by Joshua Cohen

The girls had a misguided trust in the circumcised.

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.

Meteorology is the study of how to wear a dress while pointing at Albany.

Lift up the hem of verbiage, peek below its frillies – what’s exposed? the hairy truth?

Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.

To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept the Jews alive for so long.

Obviously the higher gold price is going to be beneficial for the mining industry.

I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.

I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer for 14-year-olds, and I mean that in the most approving way - approving of his energy, and rage, his endless pessimism, and endless innocence.