It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it.
It was the cause of many of Dad's outrages too, when people elected themselves his personal oracle of Delphi... They'd made the mistake of abridging Dad, putting Dad in a nutshell, telling Dad How It...
Millions of people walked through their lives numb, dying to feel something, to feel alive. To be chosen by Cordova for a film was an opportunity for just that, not simply for fame and fortune, but to...
Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns.
It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say .
It was always surprising to me how ferociously the public mourned a beautiful stranger -- especially one from a famous family. Into that empty form they could unload the grief and regret of their own...
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.
I hate how the people who really you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you stick around.
You are a magnificent and powerful person, I said.
We are all anthologies. We are each thousands of pages long, filled with fairy tales and poetry, mysteries and tragedy, forgotten stories in the back no one will ever read.
It was a fluke. But then, life is.
Into that empty form they could unload the grief and regret of their own lives, be rid of it, feel lucky and light for a few days, comforted by the thought, At least that wasn’t me.
It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. They'd probably stay that way unless Apple invented the iPiano, which fit inside your pocket and co...
The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your health.
The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing ... it never stops.
As far as one journeys, as much as a man sees, from the turrets of the TajMahal to the Siberian wilds, he may eventually come to an unfortunateconclusion —usually while he's lying in bed, staring at t...
The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they’ll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.
But it could also be an enslavement, , to keep searching for , keep plunging down, down to the lonely chambers of the sea. .It was a tragic thing to do, like looking for Eden.
It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what...
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