It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it certainly would have sounded fantastic if in the 1950's you were told that where you sat in a restaurant or on a bus could begin to uproot racism.

I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.