The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.
See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.
Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for.