That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.