Marcel Theroux

“We don't get much of a spring or fall to speak of. Up here, for ten months a year, the weather has…

— Marcel Theroux

“I had the feeling of something inside me that flipped like a fish in a net. It was hope. As much as…

— Marcel Theroux

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

— Marcel Theroux

“Imagine: If a man who shakes hands up and down meets a man who shakes hands side to side, what will happen?…

— Marcel Theroux

“Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?”

— Marcel Theroux

Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by…

— Marcel Theroux

“Time has a way of evening things out, the simple ways endure, and the fancy pants with his smart new way falls…

— Marcel Theroux

“Human beings are rat-cunning and will happily kill you twice over for a hot meal. That’s what long observation has taught me.…

— Marcel Theroux

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

— Marcel Theroux

“He said it hit him travelling one time in the year or so before he met my mother. Whatever country of the…

— Marcel Theroux

“What I found in a city—when I finally saw a real one—was disquieting. Nothing matched. It was a weird assemblage of things,…

— Marcel Theroux

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

— Marcel Theroux

“I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the…

— Marcel Theroux

“Everyone expects to be at the end of something. What no one expects is to be at the end of everything.”

— Marcel Theroux

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

— Marcel Theroux

“no one tells you this, how having children multiplies your capacity for suffering.”

— Marcel Theroux

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

— Marcel Theroux

“As much as I bad-mouth people in general and think the worst of them, I’m secretly waiting for them to surprise me.…

— Marcel Theroux

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

— Marcel Theroux

“...the mustard on the roof of my mouth gave me the feeling that someone was removing my nasal hair with a blowtorch.”

— Marcel Theroux

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

— Marcel Theroux