A marketing psychologist and who advised Chip, now, to wake up and do the same), he returned to his car and discovered that each of his plastic-wrapped cheeses was protected by its own antitheft badge...
Zachary's mother, Lucy, waylaid him on the third-floor landing and offered, unsolicited, her opinion that the Traumatics had been the kind of adolescently posturing, angst-mongering boy group that nev...
When a smoker says he wants to quit but can’t, what he’s really saying is, I want to quit but I want even more not to suffer the agony of withdrawal. To argue otherwise is to jettison any lingering no...
What happened in the virtual world, where beauty existed for the purpose of being hated and besmirched, was more compelling than what happened in the real world, where beauty seemed to have no purpose...
Un inconvenient del correu electrònic és que només el pots esborrar una vegada: no pots arrugar-lo, rebotre'l contra el terra, trepitjar-lo, fer-ne mil bocins i cremar-lo. Hi podia haver alguna cosa m...
This was what was keeping me awake at night,' Walter said. 'This fragmentation. Because it's the same problem everywhere. It's like the internet, or cable TV- there's never any center, there's no comm...
They gathered not in anger but in celebration of their having found, as a generation, a gentler and more respectful way of being. A way, not incidentally, more in harmony with consuming.
There’s something very wrong when a taste bud is still reporting strangeness five hours after you had a sweetened drink. Do you know that if you smoke crystal meth even once, your entire brain chemist...
There’s hardly anybody who doesn’t hate somebody now, and nobody at all whom somebody doesn’t hate.
There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
The truth is that nothing between Patty and Richard was ever going to last, because they couldn't help being disappointments to each other, because neither was as lovable to the other as Walter was to...
The tone of the new ones, in their TED Talks, in PowerPointed product launches, in testimony to parliaments and congresses, in utopianly titled books, was a smarmy syrup of convenient conviction and p...
The soul,' he said to Pip, 'is a chemical sensation. What you see lying on this sofa is a glorified . Every enzyme has its special job to do. It spends its life looking for the specific molecule it's...
The problem with a life freely chosen every day, a New Testament life, was that it could end at any moment.
The only guaranteed result of having an affair would be to add yet another disapproving woman to his life.
The man who ‘forgets’ his toothbrush in a woman’s house is a man who wants to come back.
The guiding principle of Martin’s personality, the sum of his interior existence, was the desire to be left alone. If all those years he’d sought attention, even novelty, and if he still relished them...
The aim of the Internet and its associated technologies was to liberate humanity from the tasks—making things, learning things, remembering things—that had previously given meaning to life and thus ha...
So, what, you got cigarette burns, too? Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, It's nothing. Self-inflicted. You pathetic American.Different kind of prison Chip said.
So many . A plague of literary .