Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Alec Wilkinson.
Last updated on December 7, 2024.
Alec Wilkinson is a writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American "literary journalists...(reminiscent) of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee".
I don’t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining a militia. It’s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation.
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.