"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."

"Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art."

"“How about,” she said, “that you do the logical thing because it’s the logical thing to do?”"

"It struck me that his dialect was actually the nondialect of someone who has learned a new language perfectly but wit…"

"There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real."

"It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters."

"Sol realized what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always paro…"

"Listen! There will be no more offerings, neither child nor parent. There will be no more sacrifices for anyone other …"

"If our society ever opted for Orwell’s Big Brother approach, the instrument of choice for oppression would have to be…"

"It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence…"