"If one could be perfectly certain that everybody always stays within his budget constraint, everybody could be allowed to obtain goods without a specific quid pro quo."

"The fact is we are all, no matter where we live, surrounded constantly by stories, whether they are literal…"

"Laughter is a basic human need, along with love, and food, and an HBO subscription."

"In one work Marcel Duchamp meets Tracey Emin in the desert, with three camp cowboys. In another he meets El…"

"Peter sighed. He turned the palms of his hands up as though to guess at rain. Anna knew him, theme and chor…"

"There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals …"

"I sat before my typewriter and the great awful void descended, and I beat my head with my fists, put a pill…"