The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always. And who among us, offered the chance, would not relive the day or hour in which we first...
The female memory defies explanation.
The colonel had a single vice—whiskey—and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.
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...
If physicists want to develop a time machine, they should explore fear. Fear dilates and compresses time without limit. For desperate people awaiting rescue, every instant stretches into unendurable a...
I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.
For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop.
Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.
At least fifty people are sitting or standing within sight of me. The oldest ones sit on their stoops beneath dented metal awnings. The middle-aged stand in little knots, the men sharing bottles wrapp...
Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years; the size of the woman on the outside didn't mean nothing. It...
Learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.
Into another identity. And I
Fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor
You yourself are guilty of a crime when you do not punish crime.
White America looks at the Vietnamese, the Irish, the Jews, and they say, ‘What’s the problem with the blacks?’ The resentment you hear around this town is based on that, not on old ideas of superiori...
When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it.
The naïveté of human beings is truly breathtaking
The hour of justice does not strike on the dials of this world.
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.
Marrying someone you don’t love is a sin. Because it sends both of you to hell. It destroys the other person first, but in the end it gets you, too. The magnitude of what you’ve done, the damage you’v...