But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
The bay was bright blue today, the hard fierce blue of a gas flame. If there was fog rolling in—and there must be, given the insistence of those horns—she couldn’t see it from here.
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly
There’s a theory, said Anna, handing him a cup of tea as she climbed back into bed, that we are all Atlanteans. Who? Us. San Franciscans. Edgar grinned indulgently, bracing himself for another yarn. A...
THERE WERE MORNINGS WHEN VINCENT FELT LIKE THE last hippie in the world. The Last Hippie. The phrase assumed a kind of tragic grandeur as he stood in the bathroom of his Oak Street flat, fluffing his...
DEAR MAMA, I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to write. Every time I try to write to you and Papa I realize I’m not saying the things that are in my heart. That would be O.K., if I loved you any less tha...
Thack seemed to sort something out for a moment. Sometimes I watch him when he’s playing with Harry or digging in the yard. And I think: This is it, this is the guy I’ve waited for all my life. Then t...
The people beneath the pendulum were in their own orbits of bliss or grief, which Shawna did not want to invade. Instead she made her way upstairs, reading the inscriptions that caught her eye, moved...
If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...
It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know it. We lose everyone we love, if they don't lose us first, and every single th...
It occurred to Michael that this was the great perk of being loved: someone to wait for you, someone to tell you that it will get easier up ahead. Even when it might not be true.
His name is Jed, he said. He’s in pre-law at Rice University. That’s all I know, except that he’s probably straight. The landlady gave him a sly smile. That’s what he told you? He’s probably straight?...
Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.
We’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.
Don't listen when they scoffThat you are too old and I am young,For I am old enough to know betterAnd you are young enough not to care.
Footnotes to a feeling
Uh … you know, strict. With occasional lapses into lacto and ovo, huh? Yes. Except on weekends and nights when I’m stoned. Then I’m a steako-lacto-ovo … or maybe a porkchopo-lacto-ovo…
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not hav...
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
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