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...
Raising
Down to brass tacks. What have you
When we reach the intersection with Homochitto Street, I turn right, into town, and soon we’re passing Dunleith, the antebellum mansion that I always say makes Tara from Gone with the Wind look like a...
Elbowed Danny. You think Shields is the father of that baby?
Change my conviction.
Man plans, God laughs,
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. —Jane Austen, Persuasion, paraphr.
Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for...
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be...
There’s no meaning to be found in tragedy. Only in our response to it.
The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing. Life is simple.
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...
Men of integrity and courage are rare these days.
Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.
CNN, okay? They came at night and beat down the doors. All
Psychiatric evaluation. Roberts glanced at Jack Moran. If you will agree to
Learned a long time ago, if you’re going to wait for this world to be fair, you’re going to be waiting in the grave.
You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool.
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.