Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at o...
And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I hear that sound when things hit the ground still. Anything.’ If I could, I would make it...
Allora il mio papà merita di stare nell'archivio''Cosa ti fa pensare che sia un bene starci?''Pechè vuol dire che uno è biograficamente significativo''E perché, questo è un bene?''Io voglio essere sig...
All happy mornings resemble one another, as do all unhappy mornings, and that’s at the bottom of what makes them so deeply unhappy: the feeling that this unhappiness has happened before, that efforts...
ARTArt is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are no expamples of art, nor good reasons to think that it will ever...
A Lutsk ti ho comprato dei libri, le disse Yankel chiudendo la porta a prima sera, chiudendo fuori il resto del mondo. Non possiamo permetterceli, ribatté lei afferrando la borsa pesante. Domani dovrò...
Ей нужно подтверждение моей любви, только это всем друг от друга и нужно, не сама любовь, а подтверждение, что она в наличии, как свежие батарейки в карманном фонарике из аварийного набора в шкафу в к...
There are only some many times you can utter It does not hurt before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.
Gaura despre care incepea sa invete ca nu este exceptia in viata, ci regula. Gaura nu inseamna gol; golul exista in jurul ei.
Siguranta si pace la adapost de ce?- Nu stiu. Siguranta si pace la adapost de ne-siguranta si de ne-pace.
With writing, we have second chances.
Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, an...
What about frozen planes, which could be safe from heat-seeking missiles? What about subway turnstiles that were also radiation detectors? What about incredibly long ambulances that connected every bu...
What Jacob really thought: his father was an ignorant, narcissistic, self-righteous pig, too anal-retentive and pussy-whipped to grasp the extreme reaches of his hypocrisy, emotional impotence, and me...
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
The average distance our meat travels hovers around fifteen hundred miles. That’s like me driving from Brooklyn to the Texas Panhandle for lunch.
The UN special envoy on food called it a crime against humanity to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol while almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agri...
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.