Each generation was a rehearsal of the one before, so that that family gradually formed the repetitive pattern of a Greek fret, interrupted only once in two centuries by a nine-year-old boy who had ta...
Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
—Father says! ...her voice cut him through. —Lucifer was the archangel who refused to serve Our Lord. To sin is to falsify something in the Divine Order, and that is what Lucifer did. His name means B...
Merry Christmas! the man threatened.
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible...
Even in sleep, he was waiting, a little tense like everyone waiting within reach of a telephone, for it to ring. And still, even in sleep, he knew there would be time. Adam, after all, lived for nine...
Said, —Monasteries are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets.
Resurrection a dispensable preoccupation for one who had not yet lived.
Are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets.
The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.
That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.
Let them look up in the sky then...! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars...
I'll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they've stopped caring.
—Problem what happened he always woke up the same person went to bed the night before only way he knew it these God damned words going through his head, go to bed knew he’d wake up the same God damned...
You see I still have confidence in you sir, or should I say the artist who dwells within you, the artist who disdains such mundane details as selecting a fresh shirt in the morning, who steps forth in...
Someone had already remarked that Bruckner had been Hitler’s favorite composer, someone else, that there was something wrong with any young person who really enjoyed the late Beethoven; someone had al...
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
The most difficult challenge to the ideal is its transformation into reality, and few ideals survive.
The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.
Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.