Mr. Archer being EARTH FRIENDLY was APPARATUS HOSTILE.
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.
It was true. After our divorce, I'd ended up in a slight relationship with my last research assistant, Aurelia Feinstein, age 34-though let me state for the record it was not as hot as it sounded. Mak...
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...
I pretended not to notice, but Dad looked sort of deflated there on the edge of my bed. A lost, even humbled look was wandering around his face (quite surprised to be there). Seeing him like this, so...
God, the boring relative everyone ignores—no one calls, no one writes—until they need a serious favor.
Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.
You know what Confucius said? Remind me. ‘Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.’
When she opened up that closet and found you cowering in the corner, what did she do? You're still alive, aren't you? You're still wearing that sacrilegious getup. What did Ashley do that you were so...
What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.
We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.
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. The most we can do is hold...
The days shuffled by like bland schoolgirls. I didn’t notice their individual faces, only their basic uniform: day and night, day and night.I had no patience for showers or balanced meals. I did a lot...
That's what I've always found so pathetic about . They weep when they have a live glimpse of you, frame the fork you touched. Yet they're impervious to anything with that inspiration, like enriching...
Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.
No way, man. I got one rule as a driver.What’s that?Never look in da rearview mirror. We drifted into the left-hand lane, cutting off a cab.It’s not healthy to keep a’ watchin’ what you leavin’ behind...
No matter what time of day or amount of work to be done, someone with Tahiti could close his eyes and the reality of moody lawnmowers, scruffy lawns, threats of termination of employment would recede...
Fuck you, she said, giggling. And your little dog too.
Due to Jade's fortresslike manner, which, like any well-built castle, made access challenging, girls found her existence not only threatening but flat-out wrong. Although Bartelby Athletic Center feat...
Astrid taught me some of the words. I've never forgotten them. One was 'terulya.' It meant deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It's something you have to have before you die in order to have...