On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

That’s the problem with relationships,” George was saying. “It’s a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It’s counter-evolutionary. How can...

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Cats are there to be indulged. That’s their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will...

An ironic religion — one that never claims to be absolutely true but only professes to be relatively beautiful, and never promises salvation but only proposes it as a salubrious idea. A century ago there...

Children, awkward, isolate, their bodies crammed to bursting with caffein and sugar and pop music and cologne and perfume and hairgel and pimple cream and growth hormone-treated hamburger meat and premature sex drives and costly,...

He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of his skull pulsing like a single, giant nerve being chewed by...

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.