What do they expect of a one-eyed, one-armed artist-- and the son of Garp? No flaws?
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.
Vano è dire che gli esseri umani dovrebbero contentarsi della tranquillità: occorre loro l'azione; e la creeranno, se non riescono a trovarla.
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
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 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...
Then he looked only at me. YOU’RE GETTING SMALLER, BUT I CAN STILL SEE YOU! said Owen Meany. Then
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 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 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 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,
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...
Technical Sergeant Garp, the late gunner whose familiarity with violent death cannot be exaggerated, served with the Eighth Air Force – the air force that bombed the Continent from England.