No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don’t read, can’t write, and...
Mr. B. D. Harper’s death was a milestone. It may have seemed an atrocity to you; to us, it was poetry. Contrary to what you’d like to believe, this was not the act of a sick person, but the raging of...
Killian won't go for it. The mother won't go for it. Hell, Davey, I've got no morals whatsoever, and I wouldn't go for it! It's the worst goddamn thing I ever heard.
Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.
It's hopeless, Honey told herself. The cocky telephone hustler would go home to Texas unchanged, as vapid and self-absorbed as ever. That a dolt so charmless could attract both a wife and a girlfriend...
In his love life Yancy specialized in devising scenarios that could lead only to unwise decisions.
I wouldn't trust the guy alone with my bowling ball, that's what a horndog he is.
His face appeared to have been massaged with an industrial cheese grater and then retouched with a glue gun.
For now, there's nothing to do but strap on an attitude and act like I'm having a ball.
Ernesto Cabal, alias Little Ernie, alias No-Way José, was sitting disconsolately on the crapper when the trusty opened the cell for Brian Keyes.
Earl, you can’t walk around with a lead slug up your bottom. It’s bound to affect your outlook. Tool jerked his hand away. I’ll get it took care of, I swear. It could well be the turning point in your...
Confrontation,' he declared, 'is the essence of nature!'He shook his silvery braid loose and let his hair stream out behind him.'Confrontation is the rhythm of life,' he went on. 'In nature violence i...
But I got some great buy on this Oldsmobile. You can’t believe it. Probably not. I got it from a black guy. For? Two hundred bucks.
Buck had lobbied for a banjo player but Lane said they cost too much, which made no fucking sense to Buck because a banjo’s got fewer strings than a damn guitar.
Buck got walloped by flying fists and Budweiser bottles, and at one point a man costumed as Lady Gaga attempted to rip the beard from his chin. The man was surprisingly strong, and wore just enough ja...
At heart Chaz Perrone was irrefutably a cheat and a maggot, but he had always shunned violence as dutifully as a Quaker elder. Nobody who knew him, including his few friends, would have imagined him c...
As much as Sammy Tigertail cherished the Mark Knopfler guitar, embracing it made him think of the casino from whose garish walls it had been lifted. The great Osceola would not have allowed his people...
A.Q., Keyes remembered, stood for Asshole Quotient. Skip Wiley had a well-known theory that the quality of life declined in direct proportion to the Asshole Quotient. According to Wiley's reckoning, M...
Well, apparently, I'm trying to fix the entire human race, one flaming asshole at a time.
Though Madeleine’s face reminded Dr. Graveline in many ways of a camel, he was fond of her. She was the kind of steady patient that offshore trust funds are made of.