Don’t be so hard on yourself, You’re doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that Mom ever was - The one you wanted, the one she was when you needed her and she was there, the one she w...
A wall is a defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error...
As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.
Killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.
If you do your job and assume that everyone else is incompetent, you will seldom be disappointed.
Voilà! said the artist, in perfect fucking French.
This is a time in baseball when steroids have become a pretty big deal. On our team, you got Barry Bonds, who is hitting home runs like a mortar barrage, and whose head has grown to a size where when...
They agreed, tacitly, to admire—but not covet—the red flowers. Mrs. Korjev liked the very redness of them. She had always been angry that the Communists had co-opted that color, for otherwise it would...
The sofa was lumpy enough to have had a body sewed into it; stuffing spilled out of the arms where the victim had tried to escape.
The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [...] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies.
Take a moment to catch your breath and revel in your rhetorical mastery and achievement.
Not our problem. We don't have a dead blue hooker in our apartment.
Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.
Minty now held his arms out to his sides, angry Jesus style, -- that look.
Leathery bar girls worked the charter booths at the harbor, smoking Basic 100s and talking in voices that sounded like 151 rum poured into hot grease—a jigger of friendly to the liter of harsh.
Is ho always feminine, and muthafucka always masculine, while bitch can be either? How
If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing.
I like big butts, Renoir explained to Toulouse-Lautrec.
I fink I gots deaf on me willie.
I didn’t do anything. I didn’t move a thing, I didn’t touch a thing, I didn’t change a thing. Believers do everything.