Everyone sees the same movie, but every reader experiences a different book, because reading involves you in hours of active, creative work, the characters, their movements and thoughts re-created in...
Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every tim...
This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.That’s only three.Alvis finished his wine. You have to do disappointment twice.
He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.
Stories are nations, empires.
I could write for days about the disappointment of politics.
How can you not feel like a whole city of people waiting for it to finally be over, a whole city tending a parent’s slow death?
I remembered his saying that I really only lived in the perceptions of others, and suddenly it seemed painfully true. I couldn’t think of a time when I’d acted on my own, when I wasn’t driven by my gr...
Bit yells, Homeless Hungry? Dude, I invented Homeless Hungry. The kid just waves.
These are the ruins of our memories, which loom in our minds like the Parthenon, even as they are decayed and weathered by time and regret.
To pitch here is to live. People pitch their kids into good schools, pitch offers on houses they can’t afford, and when they’re caught in the arms of the wrong person, pitch unlikely explanations. Hos...
Great fiction tells unknown truths.
Other women were like presents he was constantly disappointed in unwrapping
And we want car wrecks. We say we don't. But we love them. To look is to love. A thousand people drive past the statue of David. Two hundred look. A thousand people drive past a car wreck. A thousand...
The scramble to get higher, to be seen, the cycle of creation and rebellion, everyone assuming they were saying something new or doing something new, something profound--when the truth was tat it had...
He puts his ear closer, against the door. Shit. Marvin Gaye. Marvin Gaye + Do Not Disturb = middle-aged people having sex.
Pure talent and charisma and like gods they were terrible together. Awful. A gorgeous nightmare.
Pasqo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.
Then we'll make a deal, you and me. We'll do and say exactly what we mean. And to hell with what anyone thinks about it. If we want to smoke, we'll smoke, if we want to swear, we'll swear. How does th...
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