I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying.
Fervent Christians are always remembering themselves as – and thus, by extension, judging everyone else outside their sect to be – lost and hopeless and just barely clinging to any kind of interior sense of value or reason or even to go on living, before they were ’saved.
Trying to be anti-cool is just one exponent off trying to be cool – it’s the same beast.
American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on.
Our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.
I called a cab, still in my towel. I jumped in the cab before it had even stopped at the gate. I actually said, “The nearest library with a cutting-edge professional grief- and trauma-therapy section, and step on it.
The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.
Le graduatorie servono a farvi capire a che punto siete, non chi siete. Memorizzate il vostro piazzamento mensile, poi dimenticatelo.
Cornell University Press announced plans for a festschrift.
Sometimes he finds out he believes something that he doesn’t even know he believed until it exits his mouth in front of five anxious little hairless plump trusting clueless faces.
That it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
That everybody’s sneeze sounds different.
That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.
Aren’t there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?
Apeshit has rarely enjoyed so literal a denotation.
She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.
Irony tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit ‘I don’t really mean what I’m saying.
The father of Ruth van Cleve’s child, she reports, is under the protection and care of the Norfolk County Correctional Authority, awaiting sentencing for what Ruth van Cleve describes several times as operating a pharmaceutical company without a license.
Certe cose non solo non possono essere insegnate, ma possono essere ritardate da altre cose che invece possono essere insegnate.
Le persone bruciate alla nascita, quelle colpite e offese oltre ogni giustizia, finiscono per ripiegarsi nel loro stesso fuoco, o per risorgere.