As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...
All these prohibitions old people think up. I think people should be free to do what they want unless it’s hurting someone else.
Without death, now, there couldn’t be life. Health, he said with a little smiling roll of his lower lip, is an animal condition. Now most of our ill-health comes from two places-the brain and the back...
I glance around at the nest we have made, at the floorboards polished by our bare feet, at the continents of stain on the ceiling like an old and all-wrong discoverer's map, at the earnestly bloated c...
Some people find fall depressing, others hate spring. I've always been a spring person myself. All that growth, you can feel Nature groaning, the old bitch; she doesn't want to do it, not again, no, a...
Make no mistake: if he rose at allIt was as His body;If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit,
He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, no bloody slab of cow haunch or hen’s sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with th...
God, he’s in sad shape. Who isn’t? Ruth asks. You don’t seem to be. I eat, is what you mean. No, listen, you have some kind of complex about being big. You’re not fat. You’re right in proportion. She...
And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly g...
The simplicity. Getting rid of something by giving it to itself. God Himself folded into the tiny adamant structure, Self-destined to a succession of explosions, the great slow gathering out of water...
Man is a mechanism for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.
The cloud of the consommé’s warmth enveloped her face and revived her poise. In the liquid a slice of lemon lay at fetal peace.