Quotes by : Marcel Theroux

He didn't seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of comprehending....

I thought it was a novel.”“It is.”“What’s it about??”“You’ll have to buy it to find out,....

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them....

Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've....

...the years have taught me not to wonder too much at the dark things men do. Strange how it is that....

There is something talismanic about familiar words.

It's a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here....

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader.....