Alexander Theroux Quotes

"September: it was the most beautiful of words, he'd always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret."

"Silence is the unbearable repartee."

"The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, with a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb."

"It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy."