Anatole Broyard Quotes

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, ...

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port

I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Vi...

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give w...

Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagin...

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into ...

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The grea...