That this was what jail was for: people who believed that they, rather than society, made the rules.
Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying, Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he ha...
Some of the most influential novels of recent years, by Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove Knausgaard, take the method of self-conscious first-person testimony to a new level. Their more extreme admirers will t...
Si uno dedica su existencia a gustar, y si adopta la imagen atractiva necesaria para ello, sea la que sea, se suele creer que uno ha desistido de ser querido por ser quien es en realidad. Y si uno con...
She’d been drinking jug wine steadily for four hours.
She reshelved the sixpack and wrenched herself away to less compelling parts of the store, but it was hard to plan dinner when you felt like throwing up. She returned to the beer shelves like a bird r...
She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.
Reporting was imitation life, imitation expertise, imitation worldliness, imitation intimacy; mastering a subject only to forget it, befriending people only to drop them.
Now Connie seemed to be suggesting that what made people complain about stupidity was their own stupidity.
My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love a...
Local politicians of color said children and tomorrow. They said digital and democracy and history.
Life a miserable contradiction, endless desire but limited supplies, your birth just a ticket to your death:
La brezza fredda e il fumo della Camel si mescolavano come gioia e rimorso.
Katz couldn't have said exactly why Walter mattered to him. No doubt part of it was simply an accident of grandfathering: of forming an attachment at an impressionable ago, before the contours of his...
It offended his sense of proportion and economy to throw away a ninety-percent serviceable string of lights. It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals,...
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.
Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.
I tell you everything. Nothing that matters.
I considered, quite seriously, strangling her to death while I fucked her and then throwing myself in front of the 8:11 bus. The idea was not without its logic and appeal. But there were the bus drive...