And how long do you think we can keep up this goddamn coming and going?' he asked.
Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...
By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any kind should take precedence over all other relationships. Had I been...