That human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.
But Ed Brubeck’s a guy, like Vinny’s a guy, and guys are all sperm-guns.
A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading...
On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese temple. Don’t recall its name, but ever since a disciple o...
Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively.
Creation unfolds, around us, despite us and through us, at the speed of days and nights, and we like to call it love
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves...
There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn park...
When a man aspires to power, I ask one simple question:Does he think like a businessman?'Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. 'I ask tree simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he...
Hay tantas verdades como hombres. De vez en cuando, alcanzo a vislumbrar una Verdad más verdadera, escondida entre simulacros imperfectos de sí misma, pero en cuanto me acerco, se agita y se hunde más...
War’s first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
British Airways: No one is actually going to save the environment, so you might as well enjoy it while it lasts.
I light up, fumigate my alveolar sacs and think dark thoughts
But it’s not time that matters. It felt … like a secret place just us two knew about.
Here’s the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.
Time is the speed at which the past decays, but disneys enable a brief resurrection.
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...
But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.
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