Alexander Theroux

“It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.”

“Silence is the unbearable repartee.”

“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.”

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

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

“Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.”

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

“Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?”

“There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.”