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.
Sex with a squirrel who had exciting breasts beneath her little-kid pajamas was not without its appeal,
Patty começou a chorar por motivos que se sentia triste demais para examinar.
Over the years, Leila had come to believe that politicians were literally made of special stuff, chemically different stuff. The senator was flabby and bad-haired and acne-scarred and yet completely m...
No existe nadie cuya personalidad real nos guste hasta la última partícula. Por eso, un mundo donde todo consiste en gustar es en última instancia una mentira. Pero sí existe la persona de cuya person...
Nature even on the most local of scales made a mockery of information technology. Even augmented by tech, the human brain was paltry, infinitesimal, in comparison to the universe.
My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.
L'America, [...] il paese della libertà, il luogo dei grandi spazi aperti dove un figlio poteva ancora sentirsi speciale. Niente, però, disturba questa sensazione quanto la presenza di altri esseri um...
It didn’t feel so bad to be an orphan. It felt like the first day of a long vacation, a day as empty as the January sky was clear and sunny.
Is this irony, hypocrisy, or a contradiction? I’m never sure which term is appropriate. Call it all three if you want, Andreas said. Chutzpah. That’s a fourth term.
I'm a carnivore, a carnivore, a terrible disgusting carnivore.
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.
A drawback of email was that you could only delete it once: couldn’t crumple it up, fling it to the floor, stomp on it, rip it to shreds, and burn it. Was there anything crueler, from the person who’d...
Превърнал се в средностатистическа единица в американския експеримент по самоуправление, който бил изкривен от самото начало, тъй като избягалите от пренаселения Стар свят към новия континент не прите...
Да започнем с дефинирането на проблема - поде Уолтър. - Проблемът е, че никой не се осмелява да повдигне въпроса за пренаселеността. Защо? Защото темата не носи дивиденти. Защото в нея няма нищо ново....
[...] gli parve di essere sbucato fuori non solo dagli acquitrini, ma anche dalla domenica, e di essere finito tra le dune di un ottavo, anonimo giorno della settimana che lui era l'unica persona al m...
You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you...
What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him now: you couldn't keep expecting wholehearted love without, at some...
Weak people hold grudges, Mom. Strong people forgive.
Was there anything more sweetly existential than the walking done for sex in the most desolate of streets at three in the morning? The casual slaughter of a reasonable sleep schedule? The strangeness...