We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly - as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth - the same...
Wat weten Amerikanen eigenlijk van moraal? Ze willen niet dat hun president een penis heeft, maar het doet hen niets als hun president stiekem hulp voor Nicaraguaanse rebellen organiseert nadat het Co...
Vargas isn’t supposed to be faithful to a woman he hasn’t slept with! Vargas only wants to sleep with Dr. Gomez, Lupe.
Treading water, a little dog-paddling—it’s a lot like writing a novel, Clark, the dump reader told his former student. It feels like you’re going a long way, because it’s a lot of work, but you’re bas...
To the dump kids, it also seemed perfectly logical that they were driven to the circus by a transvestite prostitute.
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. That
Then he looked only at me. YOU’RE GETTING SMALLER, BUT I CAN STILL SEE YOU! said Owen Meany. Then
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you—...
The White House, that whole criminal mob, those arrogant goons who see themselves as justified to operate above the law-they disgrace democracy by claiming that what they do they do for democracy! The...
That was when I first began to think about certain events or specific things being important and having special purpose. Until then, the notion that anything had a designated, much less a special purp...
That poor girl wasn’t a girl, Señor Eduardo said; he’d glanced once at Lupe, asleep in his lap, just to be sure she was still sleeping. That poor girl was Flor,
THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN GET AMERICANS TO NOTICE ANYTHING IS TO TAX THEM OR DRAFT THEM OR KILL THEM, Owen said.
Stewart, Jr. who was called Stewie Two, graduated from Steering before Garp was even of age to enter the school; Jenny treated Stewie Two twice for a sprained ankle and once for gonorrhea. He later we...
Remember, Juan Diego—you are a reader, Señor Eduardo said to the worried-looking boy. There is a life in books, and in the world of your imagination; there is more than the physical world, even here.
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
REMEMBER WATAHANTOWET? he asked me. I remember, I said. Then he smiled at the penguin who was trying to make him comfortable in her lap; her wimple was covered with his blood, and she had wrapped as m...
Ogni volta che lanci una lumaca dalla darsena, Ray disse a Homer Wells per canzonarlo, costringi qualcuno a ricominciare la vita daccapo.Magari gli faccio un favore, disse Homer Wells, l'orfano.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me the most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Nuviliame tik patys save. Turėtume pasistengti kuo labiau sumažinti visą tą atsakomybę, kurią jaučiamės esą skolingi kitiems.
Now and forever, Juan Diego said, more confidently. He knew this was a promise to himself—to seize every opportunity that looked like the future, from this moment forward.