They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.

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.

Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

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.

It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.