Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.
One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.
Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.
My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the...
Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.
I envy the God-intoxicated Boyces of the world. Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.
I consider how you don’t get to choose whom you’re attracted to, you only get to wonder about it, retrospectively. Racial differences I’ve always found to have an aphrodisiac effect on me, but class d...
Humor is the ovum of dissent, and the Juche should fear it.
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
British Airways: No one is actually going to save the environment, so you might as well enjoy it while it lasts.
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind.
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
War’s first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.
You imagine blank verse is a liberation, but no. Discard rhyme, you discard a parachute...
Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.
Where there’s bluster, thinks Luisa, there’s duplicity