When in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: Be yourself. Follow your heart.Only here's what I really, r...
. . Maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open.
It’s crazy, she’d said, but I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can’t think of a better
To me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject) I
When I’d asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she’d looked at me as if I’d asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.)
To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
Це життя — з усіма його вадами й перевагами — дуже коротке. Доля жорстока, але, можливо, не випадкова. Природа (у значенні Смерть) завжди перемагає, але це не означає, що ми повинні кланятися їй і кол...
Но больше всего я радовался, что в этом непривычном для меня разговорчиво-говорливом состоянии я сдержался и не сболтнул то, что сидело у меня на самом кончике языка, то, чего я никогда не говорил, хо...
Наверное, когда удается спасти хоть что-то от хода истории, это уже само по себе чудо.Вокруг меня, мимо меня – дом жил своей жизнью.мне было наплевать, что это там за музыка. Я слушал её только из-за...
И как бы ни хотел я верить в то, за иллюзиями кроется истина, я в конце концов понял, что за иллюзиями никакой истины нет. Потому что между реальностью с одной стороны и точкой, в которой реальность и...
¡Idolatría! Amar tanto a los objetos puede acabar destruyéndote. Lo que ocurre es que si cuidas algo lo suficiente cobra vida propia. ¿Y no es ese el propósito de los objetos, de las cosas hermosas, p...
With real greatness, there’s a jolt at the end of the wire. It doesn’t matter how often you grab hold of the line, or how many people have grabbed hold of it before you. It’s the same line. Fallen fro...
What mattered most, as I came to realize, was who’d lived in Vegas the longest, which was why the knock-down Mexican beauties and itinerant construction heirs sat alone at lunch while the bland, middl...
Swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky...
Sure how that was going to work, but once I got Boris out of the house I could figure something out. Please, come on. Is State Care that bad in America? said Boris doubtfully.
Strange to find that the present contained such a bright shard of the living past, damaged and eroded but not destroyed.
Steep taper, seven day timetable, plenty of loperamide; magnesium supplements and free form amino acids to replenish my burnt-out neurotransmitters; protein powder, electrolyte powder, melatonin (and...
Simple obviously being in her mind a key word in dealing with overwhelmed and cranky grooms. Really really simple and neutral. It seemed to be registry protocol that the groom should be allowed to sel...
Really great painting is fluid enough to work its way into the mind and heart through all kinds of different angles, in ways that are unique and very particular.
Picking up the phone to say hello, somehow I never had. Are you okay?