“I was sitting on the floor, my shoes stupidly pointing at the ceiling. The yelping of emergency vehicles welled up from the… — Joseph O'Neill 9-11 Copy Share Image
“It also had extraordinary acoustics: in the hush of the small hours, a goods truck smashing into a pothole sounded like an… — Joseph O'Neill 9-11 Copy Share Image
I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or… — Joseph O'Neill Able Copy Share Image
“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended,… — Joseph O'Neill History Copy Share Image
When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of… — Joseph O'Neill Authenticity Copy Share Image
“Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.” — Joseph O'Neill Chaos Copy Share Image
Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often… — Joseph O'Neill Attention Copy Share Image
It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves. — Joseph O'Neill Long Copy Share Image
“people in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're… — Joseph O'Neill New york city Copy Share Image
“But surely everyone can also testify to another, less reckonable kind of homesickness, one having to do with unsettlements that cannot be… — Joseph O'Neill History Copy Share Image
It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship.… — Joseph O'Neill Cases Copy Share Image
“Each of her soothing utterances battered me more grievously than the last—as if I were traveling in a perverse ambulance whose function… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I found it idiotically distressing that a sharp finger whistle could no longer summon them outdoors into a playful twilight. An ancient… — Joseph O'Neill Death Copy Share Image
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. — Joseph O'Neill Certainly Copy Share Image
“I'm tempted to point out that our dealings, however unusual and close, were the dealings of businessmen. My ease with this state… — Joseph O'Neill Face value Copy Share Image
I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so… — Joseph O'Neill About Copy Share Image
Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky… — Joseph O'Neill Magritte Copy Share Image
Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book. — Joseph O'Neill Book Copy Share Image
“he now paid the allowance that permitted his son to live in frugal idleness.” — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“There was, apparently, a nuclear reactor at a place called Indian Point, just thirty miles away in Westchester County. If something bad… — Joseph O'Neill 9-11 Copy Share Image
“The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not the twelve-year-old,… — Joseph O'Neill Dread Copy Share Image
“Despair busies one, and my weekend was spoken for. I was going to lie down on the floor of my apartment in… — Joseph O'Neill Air conditioner Copy Share Image
“The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw evidence of the tiny brick houses… — Joseph O'Neill Angst Copy Share Image
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get… — Joseph O'Neill Identity Copy Share Image
If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it. — Joseph O'Neill Ifs Copy Share Image
