When you start talking to yourself in a graveyard, it’s time to go home.
Men of integrity and courage are rare these days.
I don’t say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way.
Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.
Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.
As I ponder Sonny’s life and death, it strikes me that, whatever his prejudices, he was one of the quiet heroes of this country.
When drug dealers get killed—black or white—the public perception is that the victims simply got what was coming to them. When a young girl is raped and murdered—black or white—our knowledge of the pr...
The naïveté of human beings is truly breathtaking
God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When
But what refuses to leave my mind is the image of Drew and Kate making love before the camera. Mia viewed that photograph with me and felt no embarrassment at all. On the contrary, she wants to experi...
Trees
Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away.
CNN, okay? They came at night and beat down the doors. All
If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true n...
You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool.
The evil prosper, and the innocent pay the bills for them.
The Secret History.
I don’t really understand the world anymore. But maybe there’s some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.
For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests
Path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.