You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.
Y naturalmente, para ser justos, lo mejor de las ellenjamesianas había consistido en dar a conocer el pavor general que tan burtalmente amenazaba a mujeres y niñas. Para muchas ellenjamesianas, la imi...
Women readers kept fiction alive—here was another one.
Why does it seem to take more than half a lifetime to get to be a lousy teenager? Why does childhood take forever – when you’re a child? Why does it seem to occupy a solid three-quarters of the whole...
Whoever acquired any real or substantive intelligence from reading newspapers? I'm sure I have no in-depth comprehension of American villany; yet I can't leave the news alone! You'd think I might prof...
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
When the ship suddenly pitched more steeply, the bookworm lost his grip. He came skipping over the toilet seats—his ass made a slapping sound—until he collided with my father at the opposite end of th...
When the deranged rooster crowed a third time, his crowing was cut off mid-squawk. There, that does it, Miriam said. No more heralding of a false dawn, no more untruthful messengers.
Vano è dire che gli esseri umani dovrebbero contentarsi della tranquillità: occorre loro l'azione; e la creeranno, se non riescono a trovarla.
This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.
They were childless—Dan Needham suggested that their sexual roles might be so reversed as to make childbearing difficult—and their attendance at Little League games was marked by a constant disapprova...
There's nothing as scary as the future.
There were those apres-sex moments when, in a half-asleep or forgetting that I was with a woman, I would reach out and touch her vagina- only to suddenly pull back my hand, as if surprised.
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-emb...
The other thing preferable about the weekday services is that no one is there against his will. That’s another distraction on Sundays. Who hasn’t suffered the experience of having an entire family sea...
The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.
The day women stop reading—that’s the day the novel dies! the
The chairman of the state board of medical examiners was a retired physician who thought that President Teddy Roosevelt was the only other man in the world besides himself who had not been made from a...
The Reagan administration is full of such careless people; their kind of carelessness is immoral. And President Reagan calls himself a Christian! How does he dare? The kind of people claiming to be in...
That Christmastime night, all Mr. Lockley could manage to direct to Elaine was a minimally cordial bow—as if he were saying the unutterable, Good evening, knocked-up faculty daughter. How are you mana...