What treasures they left behind! A gorgeous set of yellow topaz crystals on a gray matrix. A great pink hunk of beryl like a crystallized brain. A violet column of tourmaline from Madagascar that look...
What you could be.
What you realize, ultimately, when you have nothing to lose, is that even though the world can be kind to you, and reveal its beauty through the thin cracks in everything, in the end it will either ta...
Appear,
And dream herself into the mind of the great marine biologist Aronnax, both guest of honor and prisoner on Captain Nemo’s great machine of curiosity, free of nations and politics, cruising through the...
When Werner wakes, it’s well past dawn. His head aches and his eyeballs feel heavy. Frederick is already dressed, wearing trousers, an ironed shirt, and a necktie, kneeling against the window with his...
When he last went out, almost twenty-four years ago, he tried to make eye contact, to present what might be considered a normal appearance.
When he turns to go, the perfumer’s
When the wind is blowing, which it almost always is, with the walls groaning and the shutters banging, the rooms overloaded and the staircase wound tightly up through its center, the house seems the m...
Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest.
Why do we have to sleep in this little bedroom? I’m sure we could clean out a downstairs room if you’d like. What about the room across the
Why doesn't the wind move the light?
Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle, Frau Elena?
You came, she says when she lets them in, when he takes her face in his hands. You came . . .
You have minds. But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.
You have to trust someone sometime. If your same blood doesn’t run in the arms and legs of the person you’re next to, you can’t trust anything. And even then.
Lunatics
You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.
You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self- interest. Of cour...
You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history.
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