L'integrità è un valore neutro. Anche le iene hanno una loro integrità. Sono iene allo stato puro.
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...
Katz had read extensively in popular sociobiology, and his understanding of the depressive personality type and its seemingly perverse persistence in the human gene pool was that depression was a succ...
It was so easy to blame the mother. Life a miserable contradiction, endless desire but limited supplies, your birth just a ticket to your death: why not blame the person who’d stuck you with a life? O...
It was clear to everyone that day, and in the months that followed, that Patty’s greatest warming influence was on Walter himself. Now, instead of speeding by his neighbors in his angry Prius, he stop...
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.
In the old days, Christmas lights had come in short strings that were wired serially. If a single bulb burned out or even just loosened in its socket, the circuit was broken and the entire string went...
He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Ol...
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.
Don’t talk to me about hatred if you haven’t been married. Only love, only long empathy and identification and compassion, can root another person in your heart so deeply that there’s no escaping your...
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.
Because I don’t trust people, Pip said. Even my mom, who I do trust, has things she doesn’t tell me, really important things, and it would be nice to have a way to find them out without her having to...
And this of course, was the simplest definition of depression that he knew of: strongly disliking yourself.
And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world, a penal colony, and he was doomed to be violently lonely in it. He...
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...
В същината си женските тела бяха напълно еднакви, но това не изключваше многообразието им - по същия начин не биваше да се отчайва и от еднаквостта на градивните елементи на популярната музика, акорди...
Him under house arrest was in his head. Hearing
Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.