Alexander Theroux — American Novelist

Alexander Louis Theroux is an American novelist and poet whose best known novel is perhaps Darconville’s Cat which was selected by Anthony Burgess’s Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice in 1984 and in Larry McCaffery’s 20th Century’s Greatest Hits He was awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1991 and the Clifton Fadiman Medal for Fiction in 2002 by the Mercantile Library in New York City. He is the brother of novelist Paul Theroux and uncle of documentarian Louis Theroux... (wikipedia)

Silence is the unbearable repartee.
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.