До конца моих дней у меня останется ощущение, что я держу Чиппера Доува под мышки, и его ноги висят в нескольких дюймах над Седьмой авеню. Ничего больше с ним и нельзя было сделать — только поставить...
В любой сказке, когда ты думаешь, что уже выбрался из леса, оказывается, что ты в еще более глухом лесу; только ты начинаешь думать, что лес уже позади, выясняется, что ты по-прежнему .
¡Pinche pendejo chimuelo!
Why Edward Bonshaw had been so attached to it? A glooming peace this morning with it brings—well, yes, and why would such darkness ever depart? Who can happily think of what else happened to Juliet an...
We don’t enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire—we tend to think that if you don’t know where you’re going, you don’t belong where you are. In Canada, we give directions more freely—to anywhere, to...
Traduced
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....
The public entertainment of any period distinguishing the period as clearly as its so-called politics,
The memoir-novel dumbed down fiction and traduced
Living in a world where nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently. I
In the hospital, Jenny Fields felt she was making up for lost time; she was discovering that people weren't much more mysterious, or much more attractive, than clams.
He had seen his share of heroes, too. Major Rawls never knew everything that Owen had known; the major knew only that Owen had been a hero—he didn’t know that Owen Meany had been a miracle, too. There...
A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you.
Your friend is most original,' Dan Needham said, with the greatest respect. 'Don't you see, Johnny? If he could, he would cut off his hands for you - that's how it makes him feel, to have touched that...
You'd better leave your chromosomes at the door.
Yet no litany of sexually transmitted diseases was likely to scare Edward Bonshaw away; sexual attraction isn’t strictly scientific.
Writers who have any audience have more readers than they know. Juan Diego was more famous than he thought.
Whoa! cried the Crucified Christ—he looked more like the Drowned Christ at the moment, and the whoa word was a foreign-sounding one to the Spanish-speaking kindergartners. Four or five of the terrifie...
What would Miss Frost have thought of me? I wondered; I didn't mean my . What would she have thought of my relationships with men and women? Had I ever protected anyone? For whom had I truly been wort...
What we witnessed with the death of Kennedy was the triumph of television; what we saw with his assassination, and with his funeral, was the beginning of television's dominance of our culture-- for te...