You’d have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to know what you’re getting yourself into, so if there’s blame, blame yourself.
You want to be French, Mary Frances, that's your problem, but instead you're just another American.I went to the window for that one an saw a marriage disintegrate before my eyes. Poor Mary Frances in...
You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, just grabbing whatever you can get. Yes, sir, you just take and take until you´re ready to burst. But wh...
You haven't lived until you've sailed
You have what we in France call ‘good time teeth,’ she said. Why on earth would you want to change them? Um, because I can floss with the sash to my bathrobe?
You have how many children in your family? the teacher would ask. I'm guessing you must be Catholic, am I right?
Yes,' he said. 'That's it. They'd kick him and beat him with a switch. Then if the youngster was really bad, they'd put him in a sack and take him back to Spain.''Saint Nicholas would kick you?''Well,...
Why do you think she did it? I asked as we stepped back into the sunlight. For that’s all any of us were thinking, had been thinking, since we got the news. Mustn’t Tiffany have hoped that whatever pi...
While the mini-series based upon novels generate a good deal of interest, it’s these real-life dramas that tend to draw a larger audience. Why? I chalk it up to five simple words we use in every print...
While I was gone Hugh, Manuela, and Dario attended Franck’s surprise fortieth-birthday party. One of the guests was a sophisticated mother of three who announced that she hated the zoo at the Jardin d...
When it’s my turn, I’ll open my mouth, unable to speak, and feel a little tap on my wrist. Time to stand up, my watch will whisper. Then, before killing myself, I’ll say one last time, I am standing u...
When asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, we hid the truth and listed who we wanted to sleep with when we grew up. A policeman or a fireman or one of those guys who works with high-tension wire...
What they do at 6:00 a.m. is anyone's guess. I only know that they're incredibly self-righteous about it and talk about the dawn as if it's a personal reward, bestowed on account of their great virtue...
We were very crowded today and I got a kick out of completing the transaction, handing the customer a receipt, and saying, Your photos will be mailed on August tenth.
We sweat for our pretensions. It
Watch, hell,' Walt said. 'This is strip poker. What kind of homo wants to sit around and watch four guys get naked?
Watch this. 'Buenos Dios, Miguel.'A small, dark-eyed man looked up from his wood splitting, alarmed.
Upon returning from the store, he would put the meat into the freezer, hide his favorite fruits in the bathroom cabinet, and stuff everything else into the crisper. It was, of course, too late for cri...
This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.
This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn’t work. I’ve tried it.