Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope