Theroux

Famous quotes containing the word theroux:

    There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
    —Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)

    It was strange: two personalities coming together can create a third, with each being different, yet together making up one they are surprised at separately.
    —Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)

    To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It’s forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there’s a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.
    —Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)