William Faulkner ever said wasn’t written in one of his novels, but spoken during an interview in Paris: The past is never dead; it’s not even past.
Some stories must wait to be told. Any writer worth his salt knows this. Sometimes you wait for events to percolate in your subconscious until a deeper truth emerges; other times you’re simply waiting...
Men of integrity and courage are rare these days.
Down to brass tacks. What have you
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay atten...
Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand.
I’m a big believer in first lines. If a writer doesn’t grab you with their first sentence, even in a literary novel, they might need to think about another line of work.
Man plans, God laughs,
Jung didn’t try to separate good and evil. He knew that both exist in every human heart. He called the propensity to evil the Shadow. And he believed that trying to deny or repress the Shadow is dange...
You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.
To all those adults who return home to repay the debt of childhood, and find they never really left. Listen while you still can.
Now it turns out he was having sex with his babysitter, and they’re so pissed off they’re about to pop. But their anger’s not really about Kate, you know? It’s about them. They feel betrayed. They put...
Change my conviction.
Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be.
Nothing frightens me more than the faith in my daughter’s eyes. How many men deserve that kind of trust? One by one, the mentors I’ve most admired eventually revealed chinks in their armor, cracks in...
There’s no meaning to be found in tragedy. Only in our response to it.
For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests
Elbowed Danny. You think Shields is the father of that baby?
You ever read American Tabloid, by James Ellroy?
Remember what Aristotle said! she cries. Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. And Horace! Horace? What did Horace say, Pithy? Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, be...
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