I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.
I understood in a flash that I must keep my mind safe, whatever came next. I believe now that it was not only enormous luck that brought me this understanding the very first day, but also my habit of...
He was my husband, my apartment mate, my soul mate, the father of the little plant in my confused soil, the lover who had made me adore his body without inhibition after my years of relative solitude,...
For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.
Der Glaube ist das, was fuer uns real ist.
But sometimes a man who is very good thinks, I am very bad, and it—destructs his life, everything. Because he does not believe that he has any right to do something, so he does less and less.
As an adult I have often known that peculiar legacy time brings to the traveler: the longing to seek out a place a second time, to find deliberately what we stumbled on once before, to recapture the f...
And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?
When the sun rose at the quarry it turned the world lavender and gold. After
Perhaps when you live your entire life among such scenes, they do not register as beauty but as the world itself—
Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can...
Strangers are strange to each other.
It was strange, I reflected, as we went out into the golden evening of the Byzantine streets, that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides f...
I wondered if a novel could have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality.
I knew people who dreamed all the time about going somewhere else, and they let that ruin their lives. When you are not allowed to do something, it often becomes very important.
Dracula — He paused. Dracula—Vlad Tepes—is still alive.
Doesn't every love express itself this way, with the seeds of both its flowering and its ruin in the very first words, the first breath, the first though?
I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banalit...