One of the advantages of loving women, of being loved by women: they will always do things far beyond the call of duty
The window logs Kilburn’s skyline. Ungentrified, ungentrifiable. Boom and bust never come here. Here bust is permanent. Empty State Empire, empty Odeon, graffiti-streaked sidings rising and falling li...
In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
It hurts to look at what you can't have
But singing isn’t just about belting it out, is it? It’s not just who has the most wobble or the highest note, no, it’s about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a so...
That feeling. That's the real difference in a life. People who live on solid ground, underneath safe skies, know nothing of this; they are like the English POWs in Dresden who continued to pour tea an...
Thirty years - almost all of them really happy. That's a lifetime, it's incredible. Most people don't get that. But maybe this is just over, you know? Maybe it's over...
Did you know this is how other families are?...What a peaceful existence. What a joy their lives must be. They open a door and all they've got behind it is a bathroom or living room. Just neutral spac...
Usually when we compliment a dancer we say: she makes it look easy. This is not the case with Aimee. Part of her secret, I felt as I watched her, is the way she’s able to summon joy out of effort, for...
It’s hard to keep apocalypse consistently in mind, especially if you want to get out of bed in the morning.
Either everything is sacred or nothing is. And if he starts burning other people’s things, then he loses something sacred also. Everyone gets what’s coming, sooner or later.
The other cyclists used to take breaks to watch him do it. Lean their bikes against the incline and time him with the second hand of their wristwatches. 62.8 every time. That kind of inability to impr...
The middle of a novel is a state of mind. Strange things happen in it. Time collapses.
I'm as liberal as the next person', complained Alsana, once they were alone. 'But why do they always have to be laughing and making a song-and-dance about everything? I cannot believe homosexuality is...
Mum, you just said it yourself: you can't save everybody.
This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.
On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can’t. On both occasions, the man breathes.
But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?
Racial homogeneity is no guarantor of peace, any more than racial heterogeneity is fated to fail.
England is not warmer than New England in July or August, that's true. Probably not in June either. But it is warmer in October, November, December, January, February, March, April and May - that is,...
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