Jane Trucksis

“Goatley asks for Palestrina's hand in marriage. She accepts, but when he learns it is only her hand she is giving him while the rest of her body goes to Larry Fallopian, he swallows a cyanide capsule he has been carrying around for two years, anxious to use it before the expiration date runs out.”
― Woody Allen

“I heard myself next praising the greatest Diasporist of all, the father of the new Diasporist movement, Irving Berlin. “People ask where I got the idea. Well, I got it listening to the radio. The radio was playing ‘Easter Parade’ and I thought, But this is Jewish genius on a par with the Ten Commandments. God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and then He gave to Irving Berlin ‘Easter Parade’ and ‘White Christmas.’ The two holidays that celebrate the divinity of Christ—the divinity that’s the very heart of the Jewish rejection of Christianity—and what does Irving Berlin brilliantly do? He de-Christs them both! Easter he turns into a fashion show and Christmas into a holiday about snow. Gone is the gore and the murder of Christ—down with the crucifix and up with the bonnet! He turns their religion into schlock.”
― Philip Roth, Operation Shylock: A Confession

“rutilant”
― John McPhee, Uncommon Carriers

“There is only the body. There never was anything but the body. "Wellness" is the illusion of not having one. Wellness is an escape from the body. But there is no escape. So wellness is delay.”
― Lionel Shriver, So Much for That