Sublime

It was an unspoken knowledge they both had, that the possibilities they imagined and elaborated were gestures of love and a celebration of the life they had together now.

Marcia Davenport was in Prague finishing East Side, West Side, which she dedicated to Perkins.

He would honor Perkins five years later by dedicating The Old Man and the Sea to him.

So it goes.

He tried to see everything, save it for later.

So it goes.

The waiter looked amazed and then perplexed.

by not planning to keep things alive, we were avoiding the prospect that they might ever die.

The book lays bare the carelessness of the entitled rich—the kind of people who buy puppies but won’t take care of dogs, or who purchase vast libraries of books but never read any of them.