Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Connelly's… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
