Colum McCann Quotes
They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.
McCann, Colum. Let the Great World Spin. Random House, 2009.
He argued that the device, by decapitating the victim very quickly, was a more humane form of execution than the methods previously used. Ironically, a device that was adopted for human purposes, was used to extreme’s in the French Revolution where tens of thousands of people were killed using this machine—the Reign of Terror.
Abe Fortas was the last Jew to hold the so called “Jewish Seat” at the time but had resigned due to his closeness with LBJ. Ironically, Nixon who detested all minorities, chose a Jew, Henry Kissinger, as his closest confidant in the cabinet, and Kissinger and Nixon together achieved the greatest successes of the Nixon administration.
Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in New York. He is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, New York, with fellow novelists Peter Carey and Tea Obreht, and has visited many universities and colleges all over the world.
