There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. S…

- Gilbert Adair

Love is blind but not deaf.

- Gilbert Adair

In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of f…

- Gilbert Adair

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

- Gilbert Adair

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded princi…

- Gilbert Adair

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks h…

- Gilbert Adair

All isms end in fascism.

- Gilbert Adair

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

- Gilbert Adair