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...
I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me..
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?...
Transcendental volleyball
The menu at the Hug Deli included, among other items, the Warm and Fuzzy Hug, the Beverly Hills Air Kiss Hug, and the Gangsta Hug, with side orders of Pinch, Tickle, and Back Scratch. She ordered the...
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...
Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!
Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly
We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.
We have rules. Full disclosure, for one thing. And we're in bed with each other at the end of the day. Our commitment is for life, and we save our hearts for each other. That way we can have play AND...
The rules of a well-ordered life were never enough when other people refused to obey them.
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...
She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her.
It’s time to get mad, Michael. Niceness doesn’t count for shit!
It makes more sense if you’ve lived it. A
If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...
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.
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
If you’re going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don’t you think?
Well … everything gets old after a while. I personally get a little sick of wrecking my liver at The Lion for the privilege of tricking with some guy whose lover is in L.A. for the weekend.