One day I was telling him that I thought that cars had replaced guns as phallic symbols for American men, and I thought it was interesting that he had one that was so small and fast. The next day he g...
Knew
If you're going to learn, you need to forget what you know.
The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.
Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination. Every time you give them a new metaphor, a mustard seed, a field, a garden, a vineyard, it's like pointing something out to a cat - the...
Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.
What are you working on? Elizabeth asked. Nate could hear her tapping a pencil on her desk. She took notes during their conversations. He didn't know what she did with the notes, but it bothered him.I...
Finally, this story was set in a dire time, a deadly serious time, and the world of the first-century Jew under the rule of the Romans would not have been one that easily inspired mirth. It’s more tha...
Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.
You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.
She changed your oil and put the chill on you all in one night?
Foo shuddered. It had been less than an hour since the cops led Abby away and already he missed her like a severed limb. It was embarrassing. How could hormones and hydrostatic pressure make you feel...
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in his head. But it turned out that trying to appear tr...
While Charlie’s Beta Male imagination may have often turned him toward timidity and even paranoia, when it came to accepting the unacceptable it served him like Kevlar toilet paper—bulletproof, if a t...
For the tourist, immersed in the oblivion of vacation spending, Cypress Street provided a bonanza of curious gifts to prove to the folks back home that they had been somewhere. Somewhere where they ha...
Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.
Funny how easy heartbreak can come. I’ve always had a talent for it.
Funny how the illusion of safety can make us careless.
So I am death Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast.This is death toast sweety.
Winter denial: therein lay the key to California Schadenfreude--the secret joy that the rest of the country feels at the misfortune of California. The country said: Look at them, with their fitness an...
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