Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

I admire your capacity for admiring.

Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.