A bully is one who forces you to laugh at his jokes, even if they are not jokes. That is how you know he is a bully. A
Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.
[...] aunque sí puedo aceptar la proposición según la cual la vida es una metáfora del boxeo —en uno de esos combates que siguen y siguen, asalto tras asalto, jabs o golpes rápidos, golpes errados, en...
You who are non-believers rely upon us, to confirm your sense of superiority. You need to imagine us as unchanged, unchangeable.
Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.
Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?
While Annabel possessed the sylphid grace of a fairy-tale princess, unstudied and seemingly spontaneous, yet with a dreamy air, Willy presented a dramatic contrast: brash, brusque, heavy-jawed, with e...
There are some secrets so toxic you can’t share. Especially if you love who it is you’d have to share with.
The politics of the day infuriated him: even when power lay with the politicians he supported, and the opposition appeared to be failing, so much in the political sphere seemed to him vile, vulgar, me...
The gym cat appears to those who will die. He is our totem. This thought came to me a few weeks ago. I shared it with no one of course.
Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.
She was one who wished to believe the human motives precede actions for she was (she had always been) a rational individual yet clearly there were times (was this one of those times?) when actions mig...
See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be
O.K. he's crazy. But he's a saint too.He scares me, I don't like him.He scares me. What the hell-he knows.Yeah? Why? What does he know?--Things most people'd have to die and go to Hell for, to know.
Mom’s new husband was eleven years older than Mom. He had been Mom’s boss at the Buick dealership where she’d worked until they were married, and you could see that he was still Mom’s boss—the way he...
Katya laughed and shrugged. She was a hired girl; she said such things on order. Much of her life was this sort of semiskilled playing to other people, usually older people, with the hope of making th...
It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to...
It is required that we must be fiercely beloved by one individual in order to exist: for Sabbath, Haley was that individual.