It was a wicked game. Homer, says Snowman, making his way through the dripping-wet vegetation. The Divine Comedy. Greek statuary. Aqueducts. Paradise Lost. Mozart’s music. Shakespeare, complete works....
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
It is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.
It has thrown off its disguise as a meal and has revealed itself to me for what it is, a large dead bird. I'm eating a wing. It's the wing of a tame turkey, the stupidest bird in the world, so stupid...
It has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this. Then
It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten?
Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now. We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the sa...
Is that how we lived, then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now.We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the sam...
Inside John, she thinks, is another John, who is much nicer. This other John will emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon, a Jack from a box, a pit from a prune, if the first John is only squeezed enoug...
In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of myth.
In the moment just before giving, I am loved.
In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects.
In reality it was like this: Earth was colonized by the Zycronites, who developed the ability to travel from one space dimension to another at a period several millennia after the epoch of which we sp...
In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself from a bridge, then surely the prostitute, who has shown the mos...
In front of us, to the right, is the store where we order dresses. Some people call them , a good word for them. Habits are hard to break.
Ignorieren ist nicht das gleiche wie Ignoranz, man muß etwas dazu tun.
If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values. You must cultivate poverty...
I've got nothing against telepathy, said Jane; but the telephone is so much more dependable.
I would pore for hours over the stalls of worn necklaces, sets of gilt spoons, sugar tongs in the shape of hen's feet or midget hands, clocks that didn't work, flowered china, spotty mirrors and ponde...