I shrugged. I saw a Star Trek episode one time that was along those lines. All the women on this whole planet end up naked. I can’t remember exactly, but I think Captain Kirk gets turned into a pipe w...
I never could figure out why men thought they could impress a woman by making the world out to be such a big dangerous deal. I mean, we've got to live in the exact same world every damn day of the wee...
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to guide us. They are the promise of good fortune in a...
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?
But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
All hope and future lost in a day.
A taste for better stuff is cultivated only through experience.
A storm was coming up from the south, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of God.
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
¡Alabado sea el señor de todas las plagas y secretas aflicciones! Si Dios se divirtió inventando los lirios del campo, seguro que se partió de risa con los parásitos de África.
You can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
Recreational envy was
How ridiculous it was. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you’ll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold—wi...
Bare wood of her son beneath the bark
[from an entry by her daughter Camille] On the other hand, if cattle remain on pasture right to the end, that kind of beef is called grass finished. The difference between this and CAFO beef are not j...
You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults? That
Well, that’s how thick I am, I never knew how to want what everyone wants. I only thought to look for a home, some place to be taken in. Handing over a crumpled heart, seeing it dropped in the wastepa...
Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left t...