Gilbert Adair

“My little Matthew, Isabelle at once snapped back at him, when two people agree, it means one of them is redundant”

— Gilbert Adair

“And my Black bird, still not quitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On that pallid bust -- still flitting through my…

— Gilbert Adair

All isms end in fascism.

— 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…

— Gilbert Adair

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

— Gilbert Adair

“You read Salinger in Italian? Molto chic’ ‘I was told a good way to learn a language was to read translations of…

— Gilbert Adair

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

— Gilbert Adair

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

— Gilbert Adair

There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze…

— Gilbert Adair

In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to…

— Gilbert Adair