I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person...
He wrote, You're being crazy. You're going to catch a cold. I already have a cold. You are going to catch a colder. I could not believe he was making a joke. And I could not believe I laughed.
Ce pana mea...?
Blessings are just curses that other people envy.
Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love.
Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producin...
There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than pub...
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much mor...
If I had an answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?
I couldn't speak the language of his feelings
You can't love anything more than something you miss.
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment
When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldi...
The less a citizen knew, the more adamantly he or she argued.
The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering
That ghost of a smile fell away and receded and finally faded.
Some of the names I could not reason, like the box marked DARKNESS, or the one with DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN written in pencil on its front. I noticed that there was a box on the top of one of these sky...