She was an extravagantly slender girl. Her ribs showed. The conspicuous knobs of her hipbones framed a hollowed abdomen, so flat as to belie the notion of belly. Her exquisite bone structure immediate...
Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
Philosophy is the invention of the rich.
One last word are you quite quite ure that - well not tomorrow of course and not after tomorrow but - well - some day any day you will not come to live with me I will create a brand new God and thank...
Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.
Now I shall speak of evil as none hasSpoken before. I loathe such things as jazz;The white-hosed moron torturing a blackBull, rayed with red; abstractist bric-a-brac;Primitivist folk-masks; progressiv...
None could discern in him the shyness that makes a person so conspicuous among people who know each other well and are bound together by the established echoes of private jokes and by an allusive resi...
My patient was one of those singular and unfortunate people who regard their heart (a hollow, muscular organ, according to the gruesome definition in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, which Pnin’s...
My Carmen, I said (I used to call her that sometimes) we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed. ... Because, really, I continued, there is no point in staying here. There is no...
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.She was Lo, plain...
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying wolf, wolf came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, w...
I’m a radiant void. I’m convalescing after a long and dreadful illness…I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended […]
It may look as though I do not know how to start. Funny sight, the elderly gentleman who comes lumbering by, jowl flesh flopping, in a valiant dash for the last bus, which he eventually overtakes but...
It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.
It is not easy to describe lucidly in short notes to a poem the various approaches to a fortified castle,
In accordance with the law the death sentence was announced to Cincinnatus C. in a whisper.
IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMEDShakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost.The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold.Herm...
I was always lonely and I am lonely still.
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
I reviewed in thought the modern era of raps and apparitions, beginning with the knockings of 1848, at the hamlet of Hydesville, N.Y., and ending with grotesque phenomena at Cambridge, Mass.; I evoked...