… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.
People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
You should wait, William, Miss Frost said. The time to read is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devasta...
You should listen to these people, Farrokh, his father was telling him. It isn’t necessary for them to be your moral equals in order for you to learn something from them.
You just go up the Hudson, I told him. Sure, man, he said. Up the what?
You have taught yourself to read English, too, Pepe said slowly to the boy; the girl suddenly gave him the shivers, for no known reason. English is just a little different—I can understand it, the boy...
When Homer Wells saw the stationmaster’s brain stem exposed, he felt that Dr. Larch was busy enough – with both hands – for it to be safe to say what Homer wanted to say.‘I love you,’ said Homer Wells...
Well, lion tamers are probably difficult to live with—I suppose there’s no small amount of testosterone involved in taming lions, Vargas said, shrugging.
There's nothing so confusing as finding out that you don't know someone you thought you knew.
The night she died, Dan found her propped up in her hospital bed; she appeared to have fallen asleep with the TV on and with the remote-control device held in her hand in such a way that the channels...
The code of small towns is simple but encompassing: if many forms of craziness are allowed, many forms of cruelty are ignored. Piggy
She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.
Of course I knew then where Hester had hidden Owen Meany; he’d been under the couch cushions—and under her!—all the while we were searching. That explained why his appearance had been so rumpled, why...
Logic is relative.
It was Wilbur Larch who was the first man in Maine to call a television what it was: an idiot box.
If you think you are capable of living without writing, do not write,
I shared my grandmother’s distaste for the word rector—it sounded too much like rectum to be taken seriously.
He felt fortunate to be with Helen; she had her own ambitions and he could not manipulate here.
From Hester’s bedroom—even though the door was closed—we could hear her breathing; Hester’s breathing, when she’d been drinking, was something between a snore and a moan. Why does she drink so much? I...
Because of A Prayer for Owen Meany, many of my readers assume I am religious. I go to church only occasionally—like a lot of people, I believe in God in times of crisis. But I have had no religious ex...