The only thing more pitiful than a middle-aged punk is a white Rastafarian. I did meet one of those once, and he was lonelier than I was.
Psipsina emerged from inside the tunic, and jumped up on the table in order to curl up inside the cap, which had been her favourite resting place ever since she discovered the joys of contortionism; s...
He read his own obituary and an editorial lamenting his demise and praising his fortitude and immediately began to think up witty ways of writing to the paper to announce his continued and uninterrupt...
Visiem zināms, ka ģimenes gods ir atkarīgs no tās sieviešu uzvedības.
It sometimes happens that in relatively powerless and impoverished countries there arise men of enormous vision who are frustrated and offended by the limitations of their lives and seek to reach out...
Do you know the strangest thing about being a soldier? It is that you are repeatedly ordered to commit suicide. and you obey.
[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.
What's the news of the war?' The doctor twisted the ends of his moustache and said, 'Germany is taking everything, the Italians are playing the fool, the French have run away, the Belgians have been o...
We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.
Thus the headstrong German Shepherd dog, Fritz, and Moritz, the Barbaryy ape, innocently and gallantly defending his mate, plunge Greece into a political void.
The world is bulging with desirable women, as you have no doubt noticed already, but there are some who have a special presence, as if the space they occupy has more intrinsic depth and reality than t...
The truth is that the mountains are a place where you can find whatever you want just by looking, as long as you remember that they do not suffer fools gladly and particularly dislike those with preco...
Symmetry is only a property of dead things. Did you ever see a tree or a mountain that was symmetrical? It’s fine for buildings, but if you ever see a symmetrical human face, you will have the impress...
She was beginning to understand that it is not enough to love someone deeply; you also have to learn to love them well.
Mīlestība ir pārejošs ārprāts, tā izverd kā vulkāns un pēc tam norimst. Un, kad tā norimusies, ir jāpieņem lēmums. Tad ir jāizdomā, vai jūsu abu saknes ir savijušās kopā tik cieši, ka par šķiršanos ne...
But then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encount...
To believe there’s so many dogs that all look the same.’ Nancy smiled to herself. Red Dog was everybody’s dog now,
We live in a perpetual daze. The snow has made everything unrecognisable so that we never know where we are. Is this the escarpment we were told to take? Is that a stream in that valley floor, somewhe...
There was between 1821 and 1913 a prolonged and atrocious holocaust which we have chosen to forget, and from which we have learned absolutely nothing. In 1821, between 26 March and Easter Sunday, in t...
Neapgāžami ir morāles principi, nevis zinātniski fakti.