They resisted that essential inductive leap from the immediate reform to the social ideal, and, just as disappointingly, they failed to perceive their common cause with other minorities, continued to...
They mentioned everything but one thing: that she had left the point in a bedroom in Encino.
The objects for which there is no satisfactory resolution… In theory, these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment whe...
That is not a remarkable thing to say, but it is a remarkable thing to have in one’s memory.
Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.Information is control.
Leis go brown, tectonic plates shift, deep currents move, islands vanish, rooms get forgotten.
It had seemed a funny story as she told it, both that morning by the waterfall and later at dinner, when she repeated it to the photographer and the agency man and the fashion coordinator for the clie...
In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information was control.
In retrospect this had been my omen, my message, the early snowfall, the birthday present no one else could give me.
I went to Newport not long ago, to see the great stone fin-de-siècle cottages in which certain rich Americans once summered. The places loom still along Bellevue Avenue and Cliff Walk, one after anoth...
I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues.
I liked it all, but most of all I liked the fact that although the play was entirely focused on Quintana there were, five evenings and two afternoons a week, these ninety full minutes, the run time of...
I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.
Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All I know about grammar is its infinite power. To shift the structure of a sentence alters...
Everyone was younger then, and in the telling a certain glow suffuses those years.
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
Tell me, a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. Do you think God cares?)
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it but that it is a moral imperative that we have it....
She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card.
Or amended and saved at 1:08 p.m. that afternoon