Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, bl…

- Alexander Theroux

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

- Alexander Theroux

Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, …

- Alexander Theroux

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or pun…

- Alexander Theroux

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

- Alexander Theroux

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

- Alexander Theroux

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

- Alexander Theroux

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

- Alexander Theroux

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

- Alexander Theroux