He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.