He spoke of his lifelong crusade on behalf of fifty-watt lightbulbs. (Sixty’s too bright, he said, and forty is too dim.
He felt like a helium balloon straining skyward on a slender string.
El sol bajo, en el cielo: luminaria menor, estrella enfriándose. Ráfagas de desorden, sucesivas. Árboles inquietos, temperaturas en descenso,
As one anthropologist pointed out to me, trauma is usually a group experience, so trauma recovery should be a group experience as well. But in our society it’s not.
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...
Although in general Gary applauded the modern trend toward individual self-management of retirement funds and long-distance calling plans and private-schooling options, he was less than thrilled to be...
Alfred believed that the real and the true were a minority that the world was bent on exterminating.
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
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...
Но дори и най-баналните домакински задължения като работа в градината, чистене или пазаруване й се струваха по-приятни и по-спешни от въргалянето в кревата и след като в главата ти се загнезди мисълта...
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....
The chances of one civilization sticking around to get a message from another were vanishingly low, because it was too damned easy to split the atom.
It seemed as if the Internet was governed more by fear: the fear of unpopularity and uncoolness, the fear of missing out, the fear of being flamed or forgotten.
[...] 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...
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...
To have an identity, you have to believe that other identities equally exist. You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets.
There’s the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you’re a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself.
There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her family's satisfaction with itself, the platform from which all else could be ridiculed,...
There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.