The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too...
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.
We’ve been expecting you.
An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues; it is nothing that a good night's sleep cannot cure.
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.
Profusion of fat purple and red cushions.
Reading can be dangerous.
She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee in the days before anesthesia, half crazed...
It gave me a queer feeling. Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person some had gone to the trouble of marking my name on thi...
My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making my own more or less appropriate selections. I read gory tales of historic heroism that nine...
I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leant over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as...
The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most.
Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.
There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book.
He knows what reading is. How it takes you.
El silencio donde moraban sus demonios.
Life is compost.
He has explained why it is that ambiguity touches his heart more nearly than the death and marriage style of finish that i prefer.