Charles was at the apex of his career, coming off a Lannan Fellowship year and a front-page Times review that had anointed him as the heir of John Barth and Stanley Elkin, but he didn’t know it was th...
Believe me,' [...] 'I would know about it. That's the difference between me and your girlfriend. I am the jealous type. I am the Spanish Inquisition when it comes to being fucked around on. No quarter...
Although he, like all people, secretely enjoyed the smell of his own farts, the smell of his shit was somethig else. It was so bad as to seem evil in a moral way.
A silence fell. Frogs in the night were calling, calling, calling.
A candle is like a small sun, but the sun is like a large candle; examined closely, language turns out to operate through the lateral associations of metaphor, rather than through the vertical identif...
Не мислеше, че е станала алкохоличка. Не беше алкохоличка. Просто заприличваше на баща си, който понякога търсеше спасение от близките си в чашката. Навремето Уолтър нямаше нищо против, че тя изпива с...
В първите шумове на започване на работа сутрин се крие опасна тъга, сякаш тишината я боли, задето е била обезпокоена. Първият миг от работния ден напомня за всички останали мигове, от които се състои...
There are few things harder to imagine than other people’s conversations about yourself.
The first lesson reading teaches us is how to be alone.
She was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.
Whether anybody was home meant everything to a house. It was more than a major fact: it was the only fact.The family was the house's soul.
Whatever else happened, she wanted a dog in her life.
Then again, there had always been something not quite right about the Berglunds.
The world was overpopulated with talkers and underpopulated by listeners,
The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.
The interesting people are always immoderate.
The infinite variety of human badness.
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for...
The conservatives won. They turned the Democrats into a center-right party. They got the entire country singing 'God Bless America,' stress on God, at every single major-league baseball game. They won...
That was the way most people were - stupid.