Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.
Between us. That night I prayed like a man trying to polish coal
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
Faith is something you have or you don’t, and to pretend you do in the hope of gaining some last-minute dispensation from a being whose existence you have denied all your life goes against everything...
She’s floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along.
The thing about kicking open a door to the past is that sometimes what’s behind it comes out under its own power.
When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it.
Blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as untouchables.
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.
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...
You yourself are guilty of a crime when you do not punish crime.
While Sands's eyes flicker with private mirth, the evil that Tim hinted at fills my soul like a squid's ink.
The naïveté of human beings is truly breathtaking
The evil prosper, and the innocent pay the bills for them.
That right meant more than might; that being faithful and good meant more than being rich; that honor superseded all.
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...
Because death is the end, and if a man doesn’t speak before it silences him, then the things he holds closest die with him.
CNN, okay? They came at night and beat down the doors. All
Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.
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