Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.
Earlier in the day, while killing some hours by circling in blue ballpoint ink every uppercase M in the front section of a month-old New York Times, Chip had concluded that he was behaving like a depr...
Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.
Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done some brilliant retooling over the ages and could now be fo...
Because after all, Bob said, any wealth gained by a person beyond what he can produce by his own labor must have come at the expense of nature or at the expense of another person. Look around. Look at...
AT LEAST THE WAR ON THE ENVIRONMENT IS GOING WELL.
With nothing left to relish or discover, he just might die of boredom.Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.
She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.
Denise left the kitchen and took the plate to Alfred, for whom the problem of existence was this: that, in the manner of a wheat seedling thrusting itself up out of the earth, the world moved forward...
... It happened very fast. And now that he's dead he can't remember pain. It's as if he'd never existed.'He wanted her to believe this, but he wasn't sure he believed it himself. If time was infinite,...
Хора, прииждаха от всички страни. Перуански музиканти свиреха на хармоники и барабани на Юниън Скуеър. Пожарникари кимаха строго на събраните край паметната плоча за 11 септември пред участъка. Две же...
The bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain states of mind as ‘diseased.’ A lack of desire to spend money becomes a symptom of disease that requires expensive medication. Which medicatio...
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...
The problem with a life freely chosen every day, a New Testament life, was that it could end at any moment.
The only way to avoid despair was not to involve himself at all.
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 lump in his throat was evidence of how much, in spite of everything, he still loved her.
The horror of underage smoking veils a horror of teen and preteen sexuality, and one of the biggest pleasant empty dreams being pushed these days by Madison Avenue is that a child is innocent until hi...
That summer when I was feeling very much like Juliet holding the potion, the therapist would tell me, Just know that those thoughts aren’t you. That’s the OCD, it’s not you. It was a kind gesture—she...