I’d urge you to try German Riesling because it’s delicious, but I fear you’ll be more impressed if I tell you it’s cutting-edge. That, after all, is what we want to know– what’s now and...

The intercom buzzes while you’re changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: “Who is it?” “Narcotics squad. We’re soliciting donations for children all over the world who have no drugs.

The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.

It’s like, you can’t trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn’t fuck you over it’s just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we’re afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are made. When you’re staying at the Plaza with your beautiful wife, doesn’t it make sense to order the best...

You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job and the life there wasn’t much time left over for emotion recollected in...

He looks out the window at the falling snow, then turns and takes his wife in his arms, feeling grateful to be here even as he wonders what he is going to do with his...