The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe. As belief shrinks from the world, people find it more necessary than ever that someone believe...Those who have abandon...
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles...
That's what it all comes down to in the end. A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he say good-bye to himself?
That's what it all comes down to in the end,' he said. 'A person spends his life saying good-bye to other people. How does he say good-bye to himself?
Stun me. I mean it. Draw the gun and shoot. I want you to do it, Kendra. Show me what it feels like. I'm looking for more. Show me something I don't know. Stun me to my DNA. Come on, do it. Click the...
Several days later Murray asked me about a tourist attraction known as the most photographedbarn in America. We drove twenty-two miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadowsand apple o...
Quando tutto è nuovo, il piacere è tutto in superficie.
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
Meredith was not so secure in her maturity that she did not suffer those periods of despondency and doubt which seemed to weave through the lives of self-reliant women.
Las puestas de sol no tienen prisa, y nosotros tampoco. El cielo se encuentra sometido a un sortilegio poderoso y estructurado.
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time f...
It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
It just means you are the sum total of your data. No man escapes that.
Is a cardigan what women wear when they don't want to talk about themselves?
If you don't have the grace and wit to die early, you are forced to vanish, to hide as if in shame and apology.
If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail. (148)
I will read, she said. But I don’t want you to choose anything that has men inside women, quote-quote, or men entering women. ‘I entered her.’ ‘He entered me.’ We’re not lobbies or elevators. ‘I wante...
I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition.
I drove all night, northeast, and once again I felt it was literature I had been confronting these past days, the archetypes of the dismal mystery, sons and daughters of the archetypes, images that co...