I’m sorry, I’ve just realized that I’m as minimally present in this world as you are, I had no right to judge—
It’s not a hometown, actually, it’s a home island. It’s the same size and shape as Manhattan, Arthur tells people at parties all his life, except with a thousand people. Delano Island is between Vanco...
It isn’t possible, she said. But there it is. Look again. In the distance, pinpricks of light arranged into a grid. There, plainly visible on the side of a hill some miles distant: a town, or a villag...
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you.
I've been thinking lately about immortality. What it means to be remembered, what I want to be remembered for, certain questions concerning memory and fame. I love watching old movies. I watch the fac...
I'm just curious, how'd you get into this line of work?Gradually, and then suddenly
I think people like him think work is supposed to be drudgery punctuated by very occasional moments of happiness, but when I say happiness, I mostly mean distraction.
En periode da hun lever et liv som føles som frihet, iblant ligger med naboen i etasjen under men nekter å ha et forhold, hvisker Jeg angrer ingenting til speilet i hundre hotellrom fra London til Sin...
Ah, Tesch says. Very admirable of you. You know, it reminds me of a documentary I saw last month, a little Czech film about an outsider artist who refused to show her work during her lifetime. She liv...
That people here see her as an eccentric, the actor’s wife who inks mysterious cartoons that no one’s ever laid eyes on—My wife’s very private about her work, Arthur says in interviews—and who doesn’t...
Stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.
On wheels of steel and wood.
Had been installed on top of each cab for the drivers. The cabs were stripped of everything that added excess weight but left otherwise intact, with doors that closed and windows of difficult-to-break...
You don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’re going.
They’d performed more modern plays sometimes in the first few years, but what was startling, what no one would have anticipated, was that audiences seemed to prefer Shakespeare to their other theatric...
There was a reminder that the library was always seeking books, and that they paid in wine.
There is too much world.
The revelation of privacy: she can walk down the street and absolutely no one knows who she is. It's possible that no one who didn't grow up in a small place can understand how beautiful this is, how...
The girl looked like a china doll, she thought. She looked like someone who’d been well-cared-for and coddled all her life. She was probably someone who would grow up to be like Miranda’s assistant La...
Some places, you pass through once and never return, because you can tell something’s very wrong. Everyone’s afraid, or it seems like some people have enough to eat and other people are starving, or y...