Stability is not good for the economy: firms become very weak during long periods of steady prosperity devoid of setbacks, and hidden vulnerabilities accumulate silently under the surface—so delaying...

Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Some men neverdieand some men neverlivebut we're all alivetonight.

Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again as she sat with the...

She, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be r...

She would never have an ordinary day again in this ordinary place, that the rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar.

She watched his face because she hoped it would betray some indication of her own reality – some flicker of interest or concentration of notice which might indicate that she was actually present with...

She turned to the first page, feeling vaguely prurient, like an eavesdropper or a peeping tom. Novelists spend a lot of time poking their noses into other people’s business. Ruth was not unfamiliar wi...

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Remember, some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. Which

Refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing

Quotation from Einstein: ‘The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.’ I would suggest to Dr. Chauncy that in combination, the two qualities are even more alarming.

Puke green being the official color of the 1970s—

Private citizens were asked to open their homes;

Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

People see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hanging behind the door. I smuggled books in there to read them in secret, claiming constipation.

One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer—and the other seven will know her.

Most of the time, but I didn’t want anything