"We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows,…"

"I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been."

"What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a sim…"

"Why doesn't she feel more somber about Richard's perversely simultaneous good fortune ("an anguished, prophetic voice…"

"The woman's head quickly withdraws, the door to the trailer closes again, but she leaves behind her an unmistakable s…"

"He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess."

"It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later,…"

"...Virginia lingers another moment beside the dead bird in its circle of roses. It could be a kind of hat. It could b…"

"A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, on…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."