Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.
But that coldness stopped up the sentence in my mouth. What
A sort of child, someone to be treated with kid gloves and presented with reality by degrees.
Without the balancing setting of everyday life all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
We did not desire or dread the boys in themselves, we only desired and dreaded being wanted or not being wanted.
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...
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single fest...
There is a mania in the playground for grabbing vaginas.
The mantra of the makeover junkie, sucking it in, letting it out; unwilling to settle for genetic fate; waiting instead for her transformation...
That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.
Sometimes I wonder if people don't want freedom as much as they want meaning.
She noticed the most important thing of all, which is the dance lesson within the performance.
She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted to ask the questions. It's very hard if you are interested in ideas and all that,...
People were not people but merely an effect of language. You could conjure them up and kill them in a sentence
Only as an adult did I come to truly admire [my mother]...for all that she had done to claw some space in this world for herself
One of the advantages of loving women, of being loved by women: they will always do things far beyond the call of duty
On BeautyNo, we could not itemize the listof sins they can't forgive us.The beautiful don't lack the wound.It is always beginning to snow.Of sins they can't forgive usspeech is beautifully useless.It...
Not even the Catholics would forgive them for it (and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate politicians give out promises and whores give out)
My evidence—such as it is—is almost always intimate. I feel this—do you? I’m struck by this thought—are you?
Maybe I have thought intellect more important than faith. And now it seems this final temptation has been put in front of me.