The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.
Red on! Depends much. So?
I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that clear: it’s as...
Cash misses his wife with a blank pain in his chest, and he misses his sisters and cousins, who have known him since he was a strong, good-looking boy. Everyone back there remembers, or if they are to...
Because what would be left, when all these books were in the past? He lay awake nights dreading it.
It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.
The most remarkable feature of human culture is its capacity to reach beyond the self and encompass the collective good; yet,
You just read your books and go on a hundred miles away, You ignore me.
These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color leaves and fruits and proud naked Indians in a history without shame. Their great c...
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
Sometimes the past can vanish.
She would die of him or be cured.
Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.
I never learn anything from listening to myself.
I had just dropped out of medicine in my first year of residency, a few months shy of becoming a licensed M.D. I'd discovered there was something serious, mainly a matter of nerve and perhaps empathy,...
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down...
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.