No estoy seguro de que, llegados a este punto, sigamos siendo realmente humanos, al menos aquellos de nosotros que somos como la mayoría de nosotros: los que crecimos con la televisión y el cine y aho...
Nick’s cell phone rings at ten A.M., and I can tell by his voice that it is Go. He sounds springy, boyish, the way he always does when he talks to her. The way he used to sound with me. He heads into...
My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past..
My parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then deserted me?
Mom, Dad, Baby, they were three advanced people with three advanced degrees in psychology—they thought more before nine A.M. than most people thought all month.
La mesquinerie qui m'habite est aussi réelle qu'un organe. Si on me fendait le ventre, elle pourrait fort bien se glisser dehors, charnue et sombre, tomber par terre, et on pourrait sauter dessus à pi...
Jeez, wait, don’t get bent out of shape. But I was born bent out of shape. I could picture myself coming out of the womb crooked and wrong. It never takes much for me to lose patience. The phrase fuck...
Jackie, shut up, Annabelle said, and threw a roll, hard, at Jackie’s face. It bounced off her nose and thumped onto the table.
I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me.
I’ve always thought I could commit the perfect murder. People who get caught get caught because they don’t have patience; they refuse to plan.
I’ve always hovered above their stories, nodding in sympathy and thinking how foolish they are, these women, to let these things happen, how undisciplined. And now to be one of them! One of the women...
I’ve always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication—a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. The
I’m not sure what all the fuss is about. But we are working backward: dinner first, then drinks in one of the little nooks Campbell has reserved, a mini-closet where you can lounge expensively in a pl...
I’m not good at things like that: haircuts or oil changes or dentist visits. When I moved into my bungalow, I spent the first three months swaddled in blankets because I couldn’t deal with getting the...
It’s a very female thing, isn’t it, to take one boys’ night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage?
It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. And if all of us are play-a...
It wasn’t that I truly felt bad that I’d upset my mother—it was more that I hated any debits in her column.
It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as to my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp wash...
It was about the worst outcome possible for my competitive wife: a town of contented also-rans.
It was a town that bred complacency through cable TV and a convenience store.