It’s strange, when you think about all the worry he caused us, that
It was about the inestimable burden of their lives: the work, the houses, the friendships, the marriages, the children, as if all the things they’d wanted and worked for had cemented the impossibility...
It turned out the real heartbreak of the vow of poverty was never being able to buy presents for the people who were so clearly in need.
It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuri...
It had occurred to him in his life that he had the soul of a machine and was only capable of motion when someone else turned the key.
Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
In my books, I make up the experiences and the characters, but the emotional life is real. It is my own.
If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
If he saw himself as a famous novelist then he would have known she would be there, but if he saw himself as someone she had met in the bar, well, he was right. She
I was still in high school when I decided I didn't want children. My somewhat twisted rationale was that I would never inflict childhood on anybody, especially not someone I loved. I never changed my...
I never learned how to take the beautiful thing in my imagination and put it on paper without feeling I killed it along the way. I did, however, learn how to weather the death, and I learned how to fo...
I could have had one life but insteads I had another because of this book my grandmother protected. What a miracle is that? I was taught to love beautiful things. I had a language in which to consider...
How much sadness could be averted by taking the time to notice all the people we have come to ignore? Would we in fact be safer and not more at risk if we asked someone to voice his feelings rather th...
His own daughters constantly presented him with a mathematical impossibility, one minute running around the house wearing pajamas covered in images of the blankly staring Hello, Kitty, the next minute...
His heart woke him up to remind him that in life there was never a limitless number of nights. The
He was a very small man, both in stature and girth, who had been chosen as a running mate as much for his size as for his political beliefs. The pervasive thinking in government was that a taller vice...
He began the patter, the Ladies-and-gentlemen-I-want-to-welcome-you-to. Dot and Bertie Fetters sat forward in their seats, so thrilled to be entertained that for the moment they forgot that the purpos...
Half the things in this life I wish I could remember and the other half I wish I could forget.