Arnon Grunberg

Romantic

Practical

Tonight I had dinner with Paula.
She ate her grouper slowly.
“Arnon,” she said. “I used to love crazy men, but one of the crazy men wanted to kill me. For me that’s the limit.”

“Murder is the limit,” I said.

She looked at the ceiling. “But where are the romantics?” she asked. “Everything has to be practical nowadays.”