"“So what’s wrong with capitalism?” He sighs. For a minute I wonder if maybe he’s a capitalist. But then he says, “It’…"

"So he starts by asking me what I know about capitalism. “People were rich and there was a lot of corruption and a lot…"

"We enter into all major relationships with no real clue of where we are going: marriage, birth, friendship. We carry …"

"That is what lives are, aren’t they? Attempts to fill our time with activity designed to prevent us from realizing th…"

"Nothing prepares you for the death of a child. Nothing teaches you how to live with it."

"One Christmas my dippy older sister was talking about God protecting her from some minor calamity, some domestic cris…"

"Sydney had never forgotten to eat in her life. One of her secret fantasies had been that, as a girl who could code, s…"

"After a minute Damien looked over her cube wall. His head was right above the Mardi Gras mask hung on her wall. She d…"

"It’s true that we are free to do whatever we want, even go to France on a whim. We can make any choice we want. We ca…"

"We went to Cancun, my Not-A-Honeymoon-Trip to Cancun. We stayed in a resort hotel with a pool that went halfway aroun…"