Quotes by : Joseph O'Neill

people in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment....

No, it was simply that I was uninterested in making, as I saw it, a Xerox of some old emotional state.....

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night....

As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language....

The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not....

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling....

Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate....

...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become....

There was another silence. I felt, above all, tired. Tiredness: if there was a constant symptom of the....

Perhaps the relevant truth- and it's one whose existence was apparent to my wife, and I'm sure to much....