To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.
Alexander TherouxFaculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.
Alexander TherouxI hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.
Alexander TherouxThe urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.
Alexander Theroux