To all those adults who return home to repay the debt of childhood, and find they never really left. Listen while you still can.
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...
Lot. She saw a guy carrying a small suitcase out
Kidnaping.
When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appella...
We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.
The thing about kicking open a door to the past is that sometimes what’s behind it comes out under its own power.
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 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...
I guess.
A glacier consumes whole forests by inches.
When the Asian face was illuminated
Searching, revealing nothing. A few heads in the audience turn to me, wondering who could possibly have upset the equilibrium of the
Learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.
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...
While Sands's eyes flicker with private mirth, the evil that Tim hinted at fills my soul like a squid's ink.
When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it.
Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand.
Kaiser and Lenz are staring at each other like hunters who have walked into a thicket after a lion and found a unicorn.