I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.
De fiecare dată aceste rugăminți pentru prezența lui nu au făcut decât să-mi întărească conștiința tăcerii definitive care ne-a despărțit.
The child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.
Or amended and saved at 1:08 p.m. that afternoon
When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.
Water under the bridge and dynamite it behind you.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.
The center was not holding.
Rarely have we seen so much made over so little.
Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. The connections that made up their life--both the deep connections and the apparently (until they are broken) insignificant connections--have all va...
Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
Marriage is the classic betrayal
I just can’t get that monster out of my mind.
I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually fe...
Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.
A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.Wrong, I want to say.In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.In fact I had lived my entire...
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.