Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.If I'd known what marriage was going to be like, well, heck, I probably...
Marketing jingles from every angle lure patrons to turn our backs on our locally owned stores, restaurants, and farms. And nobody considers that unpatriotic. This appears to aggravate Tod Murphy. We h...
Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bl...
Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
If it came to pass that Thatcher should shake hands with President Grant, as Polly predicted, he would still be a man who viewed life from the bottom of the ditch, not the top.
I'm just a plain hillbilly from East Jesus Nowhere with this adopted child that everybody keeps on telling me is dumb as a box of rocks.
I will never understand it, she said. We’re the top of our food chain, so you’d think we’d relate to those guys the best. Seems like we’d be trying to talk them into trade agreements. Eddie laughed at...
I don't expect to see perfection before I die. Lord, if I did I would have stuck my head in the oven back in Tucson, after hearing the stories of some of those refugees. What keeps you going isn't som...
I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.
God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon...
Eyes can pierce a skull.
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. Even the child Ruth May touched history. Everyone is complicit. The okapi complied by living, and the spider by dying. It would...
Every Man has the Right to make a Kite from his Pants.
Can one who hates right govern? Job 34:13,
Beautiful people liked to claim looks didn’t matter, while throwing that currency around like novice bank robbers.
All knowledge measured, first and last, by one’s allegiance to the teacher.