John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes
Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.
Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.
Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.
At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.
I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.
Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It’s often employed by liars.