Serious fans always need to feel uniquely connected to the object of their fandom; they jealously guard those points of connection, however tiny or imaginary, that justify the feeling of uniqueness.
Not just Negroponte, who doesn't like to read, but even Birkerts, who thinks that history is ending, underestimates the instability of society and the unruly diversity of its members. The electronic a...
Love turned out to be soul-crippling, stomach-turning, weirdly claustrophobic: a sense of endlessness bottled up inside him, endless weight, endless potential, with only the small outlet of a shiverin...
Joey wished there were some different world he could belong to, some simpler world in which a good life could be had at nobody else’s expense.
It was true that Al had asked her to move the jars and magazines, and there was probably a word for the way she'd stepped around those jars and magazines for the last eleven days, often nearly stumbli...
It rankled her that people richer than she were so often less worthy and attractive. More slobbish and louty. Comfort could be found in being poorer than people who were smart and beautiful. But to be...
In effetti quando faceva compere in un grande magazzino i vestiti e gli utensili che non le sembravano connotanti risultavano sempre i più costosi nel loro genere. Chiaramente, se eri abbastanza ricco...
In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill.
I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.
I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.
How well aware the body was of what it wanted. How quickly it gleaned the news it could use.
His resentment of his wife, Caroline, was moderate and well contained.
His feeling of having crashed did not consist of envy, exactly, or even entirely of having outlived himself. It was more like despair about the world's splinteredness. The nation was fighting ugly gro...
He’d realized only recently that at the center of the act of sitting down was a loss of control, a blind backwards free fall.
He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.
Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a sense of connectedness, to resist existential loneliness; and so a nove...
El amor consiste en una empatía ilimitada, surgida de lo que el corazón nos revela, que el otro es tan real como nosotros. Y por eso el amor, según lo entiendo, siempre es concreto. Intentar amar a to...
Don't you love me, Mother? Cornered by the question, she agreed to try to help him. Before she left the church, it seemed necessary to both of them that they embrace, and what an odd embrace it was, w...
D'où venait l'apitoiement sur soi ? Cette quantité extraordinaire d'apitoiement sur soi ? Selon presque tous les critères possibles, elle menait une vie très heureuse. Elle avait toutes ses journées p...
Cuando te quedas en tu habitación y te encolerizas o adoptas una actitud de desdén o te encoges de hombros, como hice muchos años, el mundo y sus problemas te intimidan de manera extraordinaria. Pero...