Over the course of that long day in Nordhausen my grandfather gave up the dream he had shared with the Werner von Braun of his imaginings. Along with it a half hour of something that had felt like pea...
Of all the tricks played by storytellers on their willing victims, the cheapest is the deception known in English as The End. An ending is an arbitrary thing, an act of cowardice or fatigue, an expedi...
No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.
My dear son, It is a puzzle worthy of the best psychiatrist that a human life can be so utterly void and at the same time filled to bursting with
Let them think what they liked, but I didn’t mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank—but that’s not the same thing. —Joseph Conrad
I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement that a hangover will sometimes uncover in the heart.
I remember my mother telling me, when she was in the midst of settling my grandfather's estate, that fifty percent of a person's medical expenses are incurred in the last six months of life. My grandf...
I hate it that they even count errors,' Ethan said. . . . 'What kind of game is that? No other sport do they do that, Dad. There's no other sport where they put the errors on the freaking scoreboard f...
I guess I don’t fit the new corporate profile. Which is? Competence.
His mother is calling him on the ultrasonic frequency reserved by the government for Jewish mothers in the event of lunch.
He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel.Just watch me, he said.
Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He's tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for...
— Это была Бесс Гудини, — сказал Корнблюм. — Она идеально знала лицо своего мужа. И могла прочесть на нем печать поражения. Могла подойти к представителю газеты. Могла со слезами на глазах и краской н...
Но Джо казалось, что среди всего вышеперечисленного — и фаустовского гордого высокомерия в том числе — не содержалось настоящих причин того, что время от времени толкало людей все же отваживаться созд...
Каждая вселенная, и наша личная в том числе, берет свое начало в разговоре.
‘Forget about what you are escaping from,’ he said, quoting an old maxim of Kornblum’s. ‘Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.’
Breath, pressed an ear against his chest and took the poor fellow’s pulse. While he worked, he asked about the
Bells. I accept your kind invitation, Zelikman said. My services as a physician ought just to offset my fare. The elephant gave a low moan, startling them, and a moment later they heard a faint trill,...
You can’t walk me to school, Tommy said. He came into the kitchen, sat down before his plate, and stared at it, waiting for Sammy to pile it with eggs. Mom, you can’t possibly. I would die. I would ab...