"We live in a world of banal miracles."
- Jess Walter
"All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we..."
"He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment."
"Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination."
"What business does memory have with time?"
"Here for business or pleasure, Mr. Wheeler?""Redemption," Shane says."
"(…) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the bro..."
"But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we liv..."
"Two kinds of people always lie about their ages: actresses and Latin American pitchers."
"Among the world's evils—fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation— smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school."