Erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, i...
„I don't think you put the swear word in the right place, Grandpa, Teddy says. When Dad first came here, my boys would look shocked whenever Dad went Old-Faithful-profane, and I began to wonder if Lis...
I don't know what I expected – no maybe I do, Al Pacino from Scarface- but this drug dealer is more like Al Pacino at the beginning of The Godfather reasonably bemused, untouched by his criminal world...
But aren't all great quests folly? El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth and the search for intelligent life in the cosmos-- we know what's out there. It's what isn't that truly compels us.
On the bright side, I have figured out how to fix the American educational system. End it at sixth grade. Brilliant. Then what? Lock them up in empty factories, give them all the Red Bull, condoms, an...
The first impression one gets of Michael Deane is of a man constructed of wax, or perhaps prematurely embalmed. After all these years, it may be impossible to trace the sequence of facials, spa treatm...
And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?
The scramble to get higher, to be seen, the cycle of creation and rebellion, everyone assuming they were saying something new or doing something new, something profound--when the truth was tat it had...
Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.
Each gray hair still seemed like a weevil in a flower bed.
Words and emotions are simple currencies. If we inflate them, they lose their value, just like money. They begin to mean nothing.
Words and emotions are simple currencies. If we inflate them, they lose their value,
It was odd and intimate, their hands connected, their heads in different rooms. They could talk. They could hold hands. But they couldn't see each other's faces.
And he waited—as he always had—for life to come and find him.
A hole opened up and he had to know what was inside it. So he picked and picked until the hole was huge, and then everything sort of... fell in, him, his wife, his kid, and this fragile life they'd bu...
The smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.
And Pasquale forced himself to look away from her then. It was like prying a magnet off steel, but he did it: he turned forward in the boat, closed his eyes, still seeing her standing there in his mem...
There was nothing explicit between them, nothing more than that slightly open door. And yet . . . what could be more alluring? In
Technology may have shrunk the epic journey to a couple of short car rides and regional jet legs—four states and twelve hundred miles traversed in an afternoon—but true quests aren’t measured in time...
Stories are nations, empires.
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