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Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

It was as clear a guiding ethos for his life as Trump seemed to have: hate should be a civic good.

the flashes bursting in Mary Anne's eyes. "Put on your sunglasses," Cici hissed. "The bulbs still blind you, but it helps.

If I were today on my deathbed, I would name my love of the color blue and making love with you as two of the sweetest sensations I knew on this earth.

Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.

At a job interview at a university, three men sitting across from me at a table. On my cv it says that I am currently working on a book about the color blue. I have been saying this for years without writing a word. It is, perhaps, my way of making my life feel "in progress" rather than a sleeve of ash falling off a lit cigarette.

I labor grimly on these sentences, wondering all the while if prose is but the gravestone marking the forsaking of wildness

We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.

It seems to me crucial — even ethically crucial — to treat with caution any rhetoric that purports to have all ethical goodness on its side.

the history of psychology does not exactly fill me with faith in its teleological progress. p. 204

Ultramarine is not, of course, holy in and of itself. (What is?) It had to be made holy, by the wicked logic that renders the expensive sacred.

We spent hours and hours on the red couch, giggling, The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

The mysteries of psychology pale in comparison, just as evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.

Whoever it used to belong to wishes her

Even the cook has to admit that there are advantages to living alongside a dynasty of cats.

She's got a hair-trigger temper and paper-thin patience and a black panther for a pet.

Of what avail is the praise or censure of the vulgar, who make a useless noise like a senseless crow in a forest?

Consultants, being the intelligent people we are, have formalized the guessing process; we call it a proposal.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph

the laws remain undisturbed (ch. xxvii.). Apparent exceptions, the miracles, originate in these laws, although man is unable to perceive the causal relation.