I know that through the grace of God, I am the founder of Manitoba.
It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.
Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.
There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay.
My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.
Taking a call girl to an STD fair. . . there's a joke here.
And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.