That is, Harry said, because the world has never seen - in initiative, imagination, courage, and steadfastness - anything like the American fighting man. Not the Germans, the non-Germans, the semi-G...
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- d...
Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the luc...
Nothing is born as strong as it can become.
No, De Roos said. You mustn't thank me. The relatives of patients thank the physician as if the physician were God. It's no good, and if the patient dies it turns to ash—not just for them, but, as you...
Mortification of the flesh. Nicolò drew back almost imperceptibly. What do you think we just did? Alessandro asked. This walk, for days and nights in the open air, without sleep, under sun, moon, and...
Many times, his father had taken him to read them, insisting that they were the most important things he could have, and implying with a sharp dismissive gesture of hand and arm that wealth, fame, and...
In a thousand years, Alessandro said, this incident will be remembered. By then, of course, we will have become angels, devils, or a dragon that breathes fire...but we have given this rock a story tha...
I'm a critic. I write essays about works of art. It's like being a eunuch in the seraglio, but unrequited love is the sweetest, and I have the proper distance. I can compress the qualities of beauty I...
I didn't know the world could be like this ... I've never seen the sky in such a passion of kindness.
Humanity requires for its understanding and governance not science but art,
How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a con...
How far do you have to go before you forgive yourself for how you were born?
He wanted actually to live inside the dream that captured his eye, to spend his days and nights in a fume of burnished gold.
For the next hour or two, keeping up with Alessandro would be a task that would set the boy to breathing hard and make him think that something might be wrong with his heart, because he found it diffi...
Ezek nem köllenek. Csupa sár, semmi szín. Vagyis hát nem ilyen színekhez vagyok én szokva. Mert vegyük bár akármelyik amerikai várost, ősszel vagy télen, nézzük meg egy távoli dombtetőről, vagy csónak...
Evidently, rigging cables is therapy for the Swiss: or part of their theology. What was it that he used to say? A balanced arc between mountain rows / as servant to his master shows / the power of bes...
Do you know why you walk slowly when you’re old? No. Because with age you receive the gift of friction. The less time you have, the more you suffer, the more you feel, the more you observe, and the mo...
Critics can neither build nor explore. All they do, really, is say yes or no - and complicate it.
Craig Binky decided that to salvage his position he would bear any burden and pay any price, and find out exactly what was going on. He had to redeem his honor. He decided to ask a computer. He