Doesn’t seem to be so, as the wheels of Mexico creak forward on their slow revolution. Europe raises herself from the ash and holds out a hand to her poor and damaged. But if Truman calls for any chan...
Your blood for mine. If not these, then those. War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most monstrous quantities into a b...
You can’t let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There’s always the chance you’ll want to use it later.
You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.
Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?' he asked me suddenly. 'When they discuss emotional damage? The tissue of hearts is tough as a shoe. Did you ever sew up a heart?'I shook my head. 'No,...
Which makes you wonder, are they really speaking real words or do little kids just start out naturally understanding each other before the prime of life sets in?
When they are pushed down long enough they will rise up. If they bite you, they are trying to fix things in the only way they know.
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive.
We’d worked so hard for God’s favor, yet it seemed God was still waiting for some extra labor on our part, and it was up to my father to figure out what.
Well, yeah, Dovey said. That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic.
We could see early on that all grown-ups aren’t equally immune to damage. My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God’s foot soldiers, while our mother’s is more like a good cloth coa...
We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved o...
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 to...
Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, i have taught myself joy, over and over again.
To hear you tell it, you'd think man was only put on this earth to keep urinals from going to waste.
To have been made the creatures we are is a marvel. If the process required millennia rather than seven days, how can it be any less sublime?
This particular brand of tyrant, though. Yikes, Willa said. I can’t take him seriously. He’s going to burn out before the first primary. Don’t count on it. There’s a lot of white folks out there hangi...
This is all going to scare us to death, she said. You and me. But we’re still going to have to do it.
Think of all the duties that were perfectly obvious to Paul or Matthew in that old Arabian desert that are pure nonsense to us now. All that foot washing, for example. Was it really for God's glory or...