Alexander Theroux

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

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

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he'd always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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

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

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

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.