‘We’ll give you so much pleasure, you’ll never want to try another socioeconomic system.

Unable to see, they were briefly seized by the characteristic Prague anxiety of never finding the entrance–of arriving at one’s goal but remaining blocked from it by a wall or a stone on account of...

They came for the freedom, they stayed for the McNuggets.

Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.

By its nature a relationship was not an accomplishment. It was just a connection that happened to exist, for as long as it did exist.

A suicide makes a fault in a novel, as suicides make a fault in life.

A year ago he had been in America. Two years ago he had been straight. Tonight he was underground, with the remains of the bogey man, lit by the torches of the children who had...

In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.