When people listen they make a listening noise.
Leave Ueno Station through the park entrance, go past the concert hall and museums, skirt around the fountain, and you come to a sort of tree garden. Homeless people live here, in tents made of sky-bl...
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Is this the doom written within our nature? If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth & claw, i...
Summer has taken a sensuous turn: Ayrs’s wife and I are lovers. Don’t alarm yourself! Only in the carnal sense.
One moment you're carrying this loveable little tyke on your shoulders, the next she's off, and you realize what you suspected all along: However much you love them, your own children are only ever on...
I wish all this never had to change, says Rafiq, unexpectedly. I’m pleased he’s content and sad that a kid so young knows that nothing lasts.
Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers.
I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.
Nothing is more tiresome than being told what to admire,
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?
These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human.
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.
I'm not good with the low-level unexplained. I worry at such things. I'm quite relaxed about the great mysteries of the universe; when it comes to the existence of God, for example, I figure that, as...
If an atrocity isn't written about, it stops existing when the last witnesses die. That's what I can't stand. If a mass shooting, a bomb, a whatever, is written about, then at least it's made a tiny d...
We cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
One bright dusk, four, five, no, my God, six summers ago, I strolled along a Greenwich avenue of mature chestnuts and mock oranges in a state of grace. Those Regency residences number amount London's...
[...] Senecas Warnung an Nero: Ganz gleich, wie viele von uns du tötest, dein Nachfolger wird nicht darunter sein
While the wealthy are no more likely to be born stupid than the poor, a wealthy upbringing compounds stupidity while a hardscrabble childhood dilutes it, if only for Darwinian reasons. This is why the...
Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood just like Ayrs and Jocasta. M...
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