We come to a house and walk down the small walkway to its backyard. In the yard there are two screens and a slide projector. People are seated in lawn chairs, watching slides of trees.
We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. Thes...
We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
We were royally miserable together.
We're squirrels in human form, she whispered. And so are you.
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, change into a desperate version of myself.
When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick...
You didn’t answer my question. I asked you about being in love. You said what it was like when your wife went away.Martin sat down again. How young she is. When we were that young we invented the worl...
When I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?
When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch of wall spa...
When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too. And I have been trying to do it wi...
When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.
When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say Liquid-Plumr; that it is not advisable to clip something...
When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain before you can say 'Liquid-Plumr';
Why do I feel like I'm at the edge of a hole?
Why is love intensified by absence? Long ago, men went to sea and women wait for them, standing on the edge of the water, standing in the horizon for the tiny ship.
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