Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that... →
Caroline Knapp
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?
Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers.... →
Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many... →
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think... →
Karl Ove Knausgaard
I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes... →
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial... →
My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that.
Robert Knepper