But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

You're a library of me.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.

The nineties, ecstatic decade!

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.