She’d listened to a lot of these utopian discussions, and it was somehow comforting that Stephen and his friends could never quite work all the kinks out of their plan; that the world was as obstinate...
She saw a planet on which there were still seventeen thousand nukes, probably enough to wipe vertebrate life off the face of it, and thought This can’t be good.
She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people who do not.
Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside.
Respectless and depraved, maybe. But happily respectless, happily depraved.
Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?Basically everything, except technical proficiency, Walter said.Right.But maybe especially the banality of the lyrics. 'Gotta be free, so free, yeah, ye...
Not only had Mr. Butcavage’s questions been reasonable, he also had an unfortunate name and no friends in his neighborhood. He was probably a lonely person like her mother, and Pip felt helplessly com...
Most of the lights were burning brightly, but near the center of the spool was a patch of unlit bulbs—a substantia nigra deep inside the tangle.
Like the old politburos, the new politburo styled itself as the enemy of the elite and the friend of the masses, dedicated to giving consumers what they wanted, but to Andreas (who, admittedly, had ne...
Like the old politburos, the new politburo styled itself as the enemy of the elite and the friend of the masses, dedicated to giving consumers what they wanted, but to Andrea (who, admittedly, had nev...
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.
I’m telling you that I will be all right without you. Everything we have is temporary, the joy, the suffering, everything. I had the joy of experiencing your goodness for a very long time. It was enou...
It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best - the ones who didn't fit in. These birds may or may not have been capable of emotion,...
Infinitesimally soon, the eternity of his own death would commence and render all of this unreal.
In the kitchen Enid dredged the Promethean meat in flour and laid it in a Westinghouse electric pan large enough to fry nine eggs in ticktacktoe formation.
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.
If you substituted networks for socialism, you got the Internet. Its competing platforms were united in their ambition to define every term of your existence.
I was very young, and so I know, my mother said. I know what can happen. We’re not you, Anabel said. That’s what everyone thinks, my mother said. They think they’re not like other people. But then lif...
I segreti erano potere. I soldi erano potere. Essere necessari a qualcuno era potere. Potere, potere, potere: com'era possibile che il mondo girasse intorno alla lotta per una cosa che creava solitudi...
I hate America, she said. I thought Obama would change things, but it’s still just guns, drones, Guant