It's not about outward appearances but inward significance.
It's a terrible thing, what we did, said Francis abruptly. I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It’s a shame. I feel bad about it.Well, of course, I do too, said Henry matter-of-fac...
It was rotten top to bottom. Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your ca...
It was getting dark; soon it would be time for dinner. I finished my drink in a swallow. The idea of living there, of not having to go back ever again to asphalt and shopping malls and modular furnitu...
In New York, everything reminded me of my mother—every taxi, every street corner, every cloud that passed over the sun—but out in this hot mineral emptiness, it was as if she had never existed; I coul...
In America, the rich man tries to pretend that the poor man is his equal in every respect but money, which is simply not true.
I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier,
I look at the blanked-out faces of the other passengers--hoisting their briefcases, their backpacks, shuffling to disembark--and I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality. And I k...
I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd...
I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time, like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost of his only...
I felt disincarnate, cut loose from myself. How it would feel to be back in my body again I couldn’t imagine.
I closed my eyes, overwhelmed with the wine, with her, with the impossibility of explaining it. It's just—his last moments on earth, you know? And the space between my life, and his, was very, very th...
Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up no obstacles so large that they could not be plowed over with sheer force of mo...
Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: Be yourself. Follow your heart.
Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.
Even if life is great--keep it to yourself. You don't want to tempt the devil.
Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible...
Eugene accepted the legitimacy of such phenomena, much as he and his brothers accepted the pageantry and feuds of World Federation professional wrestling, not caring much if some of the matches were f...
En el negocio de las antigüedades no existía lo que se entiende por un precio «justo». El valor objetivo —el de catálogo— no significaba nada. Si aparecía un cliente despistado con dinero en la mano (...