But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. About the only thing that...
Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.
A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in the bottom of her wastebasket.
<...> However I have thought of you frequently and of the extremely pleasant afternoon we spent in each other's company on April 30, 1944 between 3:45 and 4:15 P. M. in case it slipped your mind.
A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to stop, but that's about all.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
واقعیت همیشه خیلی دیر خودش را نشان می دهد. غریب ترین تفاوت میان خوشبختی و شادی این است که خوشبختی جامد است و شادی مایع. شادی من تا صبح ِ روز بعد، که آقای یوشوتو با پاکت های دو دانشجوی جدید سر میز من س...
لو كنت عازف بيانو أو ممثلاً وما شابه ذلك ورأيت هؤلاء البلهاء يعتقدون أنني رائع لما أحببت ذلك. الناس دائماً يصفقون للأشياء التي لا قيمة لها. لو كنت عازف بيانو لعزفت داخل الخزانة اللعينة واغلقت بابها حت...
Възпроизведох тази приказка не само защото винаги съм готов да препоръчам на родителите и на по-големите братя на десетмесечни пеленачета да им четат за умиряване хубава проза, но и по съвсем друга пр...
¿Quién necesita flores cuando ya se ha muerto? Nadie.
You're a real prince. You're a gentleman and a scholar, kid.
You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write Fuck you right under y...
Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
Without keeping up a merciless guard, day and night, the variety of forward opinions in this world could easily destroy one’s sanity.
Think how practical, pleasant, and thrilling it would be if one could open one’s mouth, from time to time, and something other than sheer, forward, unreliable opinion came out!
The thing is, most of the time when you're coming pretty close to doing it with a girl – a girl that isn't a prostitute or anything, I mean – she keeps telling you to stop. The trouble with me is, I s...
The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?
That was the worst. What happened was, I got the idea in my head - and I could not get it out - that college was just one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth...
Somewhat overly legibly, I wrote on a sheet of paper, We're held up indefinitely by the parade. We're going to find a phone and have a cold drink somewhere. Will you join us? I folded the paper once,...
Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’...