The problem is we trust technology. We put our trust in the safing of the warheads, and we neglect the human side, because tech problems are easy and human problems are hard.
And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and l...
Worse than spanking or even liver was the sound of someone else’s Ping-Pong.
There are obvious psychological stresses on a person in a group, but there may be even greater stresses on a person in isolation. Most higher primates, including humans, are intensely social, and ther...
I admire your capacity for admiring.
He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for Lalitha, amounted to little more than flight from circumstance. He an...
And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed on me by the sickness of society? That someone besides me had suffered from these ambiguities and h...
The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through. You could feel it: something terrible was going to happen.
Simply being a social isolate as a child does not, however, doom you to bad breath and poor party skills as an adult. In fact, it can make you hypersocial. It's just that at some point you'll begin to...
Our joint plan was to be poor and obscure and pure and take the world by surprise at a later date.
Only silence was acceptable in its potential to be endless.
Ma ora si rendeva conto che quello, come tradimento, era così piccolo che faceva ridere. Così piccolo che faceva piangere.
Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction...
There came a time, however, when death ceased to be the enforcer of finitude and began to look, instead, like the last opportunity for radical transformation, the only plausible portal to the infinite...
The only decoration on the gray segments of her cubicle was a bumper sticker, AT LEAST THE WAR ON THE ENVIRONMENT IS GOING WELL. Her colleagues’ cubicles were covered with photos
She was having an outburst with no advance warning.
It was better to be angry than to be hurt; maybe even better than being loved and held by him, because maybe anger was what she'd been feeling toward him all along, anger disguised as wanting.
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.
I guess I was just trying to say that the Internet is good at satisfying needs from a distance. Male or female.
The main form of family interaction was playing cards and board games, at which it was assumed that everyone was trying to cheat.