John Gregory Dunne Quotes

New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.