Everything was down to chance, that the world existed in a state of perpetual chaos, and only some primitive storytelling instinct, itself doubtless a hangover from religion, retrospectively imposed m...
Between the principle and its implementation often lay some anguish.
Young, middle-aged, elderly, old, dead: this was how life conjugated. (No, life was a noun, so this is how life declined. Yes, that was better in any case, life declined.
You realize that you want official interference into other people’s lives but not into your own. You also realize that your truthfulness has become dangerously flexible.
You only followed where you were going if you wanted to get back to where you had started from, and she knew that was impossible.
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
Which are truer, the happy memories, or the unhappy ones? He decided, eventually, that the question was unanswerable.
When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you wan...
When we killed - or exiled - God we also killed ourselves. Did we notice sufficiently at the time? No God, no afterlife, no us. We were right to kill Him, of course, this long-standing imaginary frien...
When people say, ‘She’s a good-looking woman,’ they usually mean, ‘She used to be a good-looking woman.’ But when I say that about Margaret, I mean it. She thinks – she knows – that she’s changed, and...
We’re all just looking for a place of safety. And if you don’t find one, then you have to learn how to pass the time.
We were essentially taking the piss, except when we were serious. He was essentially serious, except when he was taking the piss. It took us a while to work this out.
We knew from our reading of great literature that Love involved Suffering, and would happily have got in some practice at Suffering if there was an implicit, perhaps even logical, promise that Love mi...
We could not be further from ballooning’s established tropes: freedom, spiritual exaltation, human progress. Redon’s eternally open eye is deeply unsettling. The eye in the sky; God’s security camera....
We all know objective truth is not obtainable, that when some event occurs we shall have a multiplicity of subjective truths which we assess and then fabulate into history, into some God-eyed version...
Vienas anglas yra pasakęs, kad santuoka yra ilgai trunkantis valgymas, kai pudingas paduodamas iš pradžių.
Try as I could—which wasn’t very hard—I rarely ended up fantasising a markedly different life from the one that has been mine. I don’t think this is complacency; it’s more likely a lack of imagination...
Try as I could -which wasn't very hard- I rarely ended up fantasising a markedly different life from the one that has been mine. I don't this is complacency; it's more likely a lack of imagination, or...
Truths about writing can be framed before you’ve published a word; truths about life can be framed only when it’s too late to make any difference.
Treba paziti kuda se ide samo ako se želi vratiti tamo odakle se pošlo,...