Alexander Theroux Quotes

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!

Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side

My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.

I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It was barely a gesture, almost forgotten already, this thing I wore like it was dear to me. And it was. No wonder we broke up.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.

Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.

I am always nostalgic being in New York. Every neighborhood represents something to me. I lived here until I was 60 years old or so. So it was my life.

I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.

When I wear jewelry it needs to really mean something.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself.

Some people value sentiments over diamonds.