Well, we can say that Aimee lives in her bubble, he said, interrupting me, and so does your friend and, by the way, so do you. It's possible that it's like this for everyone. The size of the bubble is...
We will never be perfect: that is our limitation.
To look back at all past work induces nausea [...] It's like taking a tour of a cell in which you were once incarcerated.
This was one of the little ways in which he said sorry. They were meant to add up each day.
This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from the people you no longer love.
That is a common mistake. The truth does not depend on what you read.
She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.
Most Saturdays, as my own middle passage approached, I accompanied my mother to a protest march of one kind or another, against South Africa, against the government, against nuclear bombs, against rac...
If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister.
Her beauty was not a sharp, cold commodity. She smelled musty, womanly, like a bundle of your favourite clothes... She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not (as with most of the girls...
He's one of those people, thought Howard, who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case is 'noble'. Howard didn't much trust people like that, so full of one quality, like books w...
Fewer American flags [in Brooklyn] than in Florida but more than in San Francisco.
Even if you fear it you’re curious to see it.
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,...
But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?
But I haven’t described Dream City. I’ll try to. It is a place of many voices, where the unified singular self is an illusion. Naturally, Obama was born there. So was I. When your personal multiplicit...
Between propriety and joy choose joy.
At least then, we have the satisfaction of a little short-term pleasure instead of a lifetime of feeling inadequate.
A superstar takes everybody everywhere. What
There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.