Aren’t eccentricities fairly common among overachievers.
A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.
Obdurately
Book is always in motion – from the general to the specific, from the particular to the whole, and back again. Good reading
You remember how I used to tell you that I was Doctor Larch's helper? Homer asked Angel.Right, said Angel Wells. Well, I got very good--at helping him, Homer said. Very good. I'm not an amateur
You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer! Miss Frost said. It's not a career choice.
Wilbur Larch knew that freedom was an orphan’s most dangerous illusion, and when he finally heard from Homer, he scanned the oddly formal letter, which was disappointing in its lack of detail. Regardi...
Why do you guys want to take all the mystery away? Isn't the mystery an exciting part of sex?
When he and Wally stopped laughing, Homer said, ‘I’ve never seen the ocean, you know.’‘Candy, did you hear that?’ Wally asked, but Candy had released herself with her brief laughter and she was sound...
What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?
What woman wants to hear someone say what her husband is thinking? What guy is going to be happy hearing what’s on his wife’s mind?
What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress h...
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean-- make sure they know what they mean!
Wallace Worthington would have reminded Wilbur Larch of someone he might have met at the Channing-Peabodys’, where Dr. Larch went to perform his second abortion – the rich people’s abortion, as Larch...
Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
Therefore, there must be a first mover existing above all—and this we call God.
There is often a defining experience that marks any significant change in the course of a person’s life.
The kind of people claiming to be incommunication with God today . . . they are enough to drive a real Christian crazy! And how about these evangelical types, performing miracles for money? Oh, there'...
The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he'd heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound - that's what he'd heard.