Always pick a redhead, Ee-oh, Manny said. he'll give you the best fight in the world. Redhead'll never quit.
He was seething suddenly with remorse, because of having done what he'd done and because he hadn't done more. Seething with outrage too, about Basel more than anything--as outraged by what Nathan had...
إن شك المرء ، سخريته ، الإحساس السليم السياسي الثقافي ، الذي يحفظه بعيدا عن التحركات الجماعية ، كان درعا واقيا .
You don't have to work in a mental hospital to know about husbands and wives.
Who are they now? They are the simplest version possible of themselves... They are out from under everything ever piled on top of them.
The disruption of the anticipated American future that was simply to have unrolled out of the solid American past, out of each generation’s getting smartersmarter for knowing the inadequacies and limi...
Mr. Levov was one of those slum-reared Jewish fathers whose rough-hewn, undereducated perspective goaded a whole generation of striving, college-educated Jewish sons: a father for whom everything is a...
In short, dozens of conflicting, truncated impressions were already teasing to be understood, but the wisest course seemed to me to keep them to myself so long as I didn't begin to know what they adde...
If he had another brother he would call him. But for a brother he has only Jerry and Jerry has only him. For a daughter he has only Merry. For a father she has only him. There is no way around any of...
I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you...
I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!
He calls his brother. it is the wrong brother from whom to seek consolation, but what can he do? When it comes to consolation it is always the wrong brother, the wrong father, the wrong mother, the wr...
Gogol, Kafka y compañía… va a tener serios problemas si sigue por ese camino.
Either foreswear fucking others or the affair is over.
Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can she be serious? You see, for all her preening andperfumes, she...
Can anyone be utterly without thoughtfulness? The answer is yes.
But why did you go, my mother asked him, when it was bound to upset you like this? I went, he told her, because every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can...
But they don't deserve to be winning!And who does in this world, Roland? Only the gifted and the beautiful and the brave? What about the rest of us, Champ? What about the wretched, for example? What a...
As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who...
As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.