No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.