Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
Her life would have been easier if she hadn't loved him so much, but she couldn't help loving him. Just to look at him was to love him.
I admire your capacity for admiring.
She was having an outburst with no advance warning.
The weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida
In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no pri...
You can all supply your own favorite, most nauseating examples of the commodification of love. Mine include the wedding industry, TV ads that feature cute young children or the giving of automobiles a...
Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.
Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden.
Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.
I’m just happy you’re home safely.
Il Paradiso e l'inferno ce li creiamo da soli.
Tom's theory of why human beings had yet to receive any message from extraterrestrial intelligences was that all civilizations, without exception, blew themselves up almost as soon as they were able t...
His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
Det var det der holdt mig vågen om natten, sagde Walter. Den her opsplitning af landet. For det er det samme problem overalt. Det er ligesådan med internettet eller kabel-tv - der er aldrig noget cent...
That was the way most people were - stupid.
How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. You guard them inside you, because, if you don't, there's no distinction between inside and out...
Reading Chip's college orientation materials, Alfred had been struck by the sentence New England winters can be very cold. The curtains he'd bought at Sears were of a plasticized brown-and-pink fabric...
Only silence was acceptable in its potential to be endless.