The main form of family interaction was playing cards and board games, at which it was assumed that everyone was trying to cheat.
Prairie
Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld, or To Wolfe, or Mike Bloomberg, but living next door to the...
The cold breeze and the cold of Richard's Camel were mixing like joy and remorse.
Power, power, power: how could the world be organized around the struggle for a thing so lonely and oppressive in the having of it?
Por que os conservadores, que controlavam todos os três poderes do governo federal, ainda estavam tão irados - com o ceticismo respeitoso de alguns acerca da guerra do Iraque, com os casais gays que q...
Pip's mother's lane was spongy with redwood needles dislodged and sodden with the rain, the sound of which surrounded her polyrhythmically, a steady background patter, heavier drippings, hiccuping gur...
It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's quiet. It wasn't easy to become a person who's OK being alone on a Saturday night, but I did the work...
It was like watching a pair of Hollywood execs abuse each other—you had to be powerful to take the abuse with a laugh.
I may be dead tomorrow, I said to myself, but
I know Martin sometimes watches pornography, we don’t have secrets from each other, and if he didn’t watch it he probably would be the only man in Germany who didn’t—I think Internet pornography was d...
I had started keeping a journal, and I was discovering that I didn't need school in order to experience the misery of appearances. I could manufacture excruciating embarrassment in the privacy of my b...
He operated by Old World rules, the blurring of right and wrong into whatever you could get away with;
He may not have been exactly what she wanted in a man, but he was unsurpassable in providing the rabid fandom which, at the time, she needed even more than romance.
A child who's got the habit will start reading under the covers with a flashlight, she said. If the parents are smart, they'll forbid the child to do this, and thereby encourage her. Otherwise she'll...
The first lesson reading teaches us is how to be alone.
Task
Him under house arrest was in his head. Hearing
[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think of everything. Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupi...
You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.