Irgend jemand sollte Mrs. Reagan sagen, dass keineswegs die jungen Leute - nicht einmal die Drogenkonsumenten unter ihnen - für die gewichtigsten Probleme, vor denen die Welt steht, verantwortlich sin...
In other parts of the world, they have double-bed sheets, wrote Wilbur Larch in A Brief History of St. Cloud’s. Here in St. Cloud’s we do without—we just do without.
If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have...
I should know better than to read even as much as a headline in The New York Times; although, as I've often pointed out to my students at Bishop Strachan this newspaper's use of the semicolon is exemp...
I saw an oxygen tank in the cluttered room—what had been Atkins’s study, as his son had explained, now converted for a deathwatch.
Hietzingin eläintarhassa on vain yksi ruokkiperheen edustaja. Se on pienin ruokkilaji, jota kuvataan pienikokoiseksi ja nuivanaamaiseksi ja aika tyhmäksi; sen tiedetään vaeltaneen pitkin polkuja, miss...
Garp was a natural storyteller; he could make things up, one right after the other, and they seemed to fit. But what did they mean?
Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world!
Even Clark French’s novels exerted a tenacious and combative goodwill: his main characters, lost souls and serial sinners, always found redemption; the act of redeeming usually followed a moral low po...
But Lupe both genuinely worshiped Our Lady of Guadalupe and fiercely doubted her; Lupe’s doubt was borne by the child’s judgmental sense that Guadalupe had submitted to the Virgin Mary—that Guadalupe...
And you wouldn’t want to bring her home—at least not to entertain your guests or amuse the children. No, Juan Diego thought—you would want to keep her, all for yourself.
And the trick of having faith, he said, was that it was necessary to believe in God without any great or even remotely reassuring evidence that we don’t inhabit a godless universe.
And the thing about being in love, Wally said to Angel, is that you can’t force anyone. It’s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you hav...
And Clark clearly knew and disapproved of El Nido. (A nido could be a nest, a den, a hole, a haunt.)
Americans are suckers for an English accent.
AND LOOK AT WHAT WE CALL ‘RELIGION’: TURN ON ANY TELEVISION ON ANY SUNDAY MORNING! SEE THE CHOIRS OF THE POOR AND UNEDUCATED—AND THESE TERRIBLE PREACHERS, SELLING OLD JESUS-STORIES LIKE JUNK FOOD. SOO...
But I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commo...
As a novelist, he was a little fussy about chronological order, a tad old-fashioned.)
…She was intimidating to me in the way someone who never remembers your name can be intimidating. ‘In this world,’ Franny once observed, ‘just when you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, the...
To the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal,’ Pastor Merrill said. ‘So we are always of good courage’! my father exhorted us....