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...
IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
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.
I educated myself, discovered my gift for language, learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.
Greed, apathy, hubris—even loyalty—all demand payment in the end. Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word.
For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop.
For nothing is lost, nothing is ever lost. There is always the clue, the canceled check, the smear of lipstick, the footprint in the canna bed, the condom on the park path, the twitch in the old wound...
Did the fact that Martin Luther King diddled all those women change what he did for his people? Or Franklin Roosevelt? General Eisenhower? Not one whit. Men are men, and gods are for storybooks. And i...
But as my mother always said: You never know what’s cooking in someone else’s pot.
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...
Who gave of their time: Joe Files, MD, Rod Givens, MD,
Something new every time. The sound of forest insects comes from the phone. Then the screen lights up with the green sweep of my backyard. Even from the kitchen counter, I can see Jet’s naked body sit...
Named False Witness the fourth-best legal thriller ever written. After what? Anatomy of a Murder , The Caine Mutiny , and Presumed Innocent.
There’s nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole.
Their belligerence in public places, their rudeness…there’s almost a pride in ignorance here. Black employees refuse to wait on white customers in stores. They treat incompetence as though it’s some k...
The faith of children is an awesome thing to behold. If only we could all be worthy of it.
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
Sometimes we think we are moving randomly. But random behavior is rare in humans. We are always spiraling around something, whether we see it or not, a secret center of gravity with the invisible powe...
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.