Maybe it doesn't matter that life never blossomed into something larger than itself.
Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before.
My childhood took place in the widening gap.
My phone buzzed so frequently it seemed to have an animal life of its own.
My rage was the only thing keeping me awake, I was feeding off it in that righteous way you can if you never mention out loud the wrong you are being done.
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be...
No one is more ingenious than the poor, wherever you find them. When you are poor every stage has to be thought through. Wealth is the opposite. With wealth you get to be thoughtless.
Nobody can cast themselves out.
Now, another way to think about this is that Shakespeare’s ego was so very insatiable he thought he could speak for everybody: a black duke, a transvestite girl, a carefree prince, a mad king. But we...
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.
Oh, there was a certain pleasure. And don’t ever underestimate people, don’t ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own, from delivering bad news, watching bo...
On Brexit:What have they done? we said to each other, sometimes meaning the leaders, who we felt must have known what they were doing, and sometimes meaning the people, who, we implied, didn't. Now I'...
Once they were the same age. Now Leah is aging in dog years. Her thirty-five is seven times his, and seven times more important, so important he has to keep reminding her of the numbers, in case she f...
One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.
Portnoy was not Roth and he was not real, but in him is enshrined a genuine Rothian freedom, created by Roth, once impossible, now fully realized, a freedom which anyone can now easily access.
Prove to me that you are right. Prove to me that you are more right than God. Nothing on earth would do it. Because Ryan didn't believe in or care about anything on earth.
Rightfully she should have been fearful of life. Instead she was recklessly bold.
She what it means. Oh, wonderfully bright at 6 a.m., yes, wonderfully clear for an . But the shorter the days, the longer the nights, the darker the house, the easier it is, the easier it is, the eas...
She dressed for a future not yet with us but which she expected to arrive. That’s what her plain white linen trousers were for, her blue-and-white-striped Breton T-shirt, her frayed espadrilles, her s...
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