Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.
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.
My favorite book is The Mysterious Island. I order my books from a flimsy catalog the teacher hands out to every student in the class. Emil and the Detectives. White Fang. Like that. Money is tight fo...
My clearest memory of Ferriday is driving over to sit in the decaying old Arcade theater in 1978, because unlike Natchez’s conservative theaters, the Arcade was showing Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunte...
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they’re more certain they are their own.
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...
Jung didn’t try to separate good and evil. He knew that both exist in every human heart. He called the propensity to evil the Shadow. And he believed that trying to deny or repress the Shadow is dange...
I’ve sometimes wondered whether human beings are like the universe itself, where 95 percent of what surrounds us is dark matter, and cannot be seen. The only way black holes can be detected is by the...
Frost’s The Death of the Hired Man ran through his overheated brain: Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop. The waves diminish, and all seems to return to its previous state, but that’s an illusion. Disturbed fish change their p...
Emotions are by nature amorphous. When confined to words, our longings and passions, our rebellions and humiliations often seem melodramatic, trivial, or even pathetic.
Because I expected so little, Gaines's painting is startlingly powerul. A lank-haired blond woman with a hard face sits at akitchen table in the harsh light of a bare bulb. She's surrounded by dirty c...
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. —Aristotle
The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.
Люди наделяются физической красотой в результате игры слепого случая. Это дар, который дается не за какие-то заслуги, а просто так. Тут абсолютно нечем гордиться.
Treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.
When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
The stillest thing in the world is the corpse of someone you loved. A hunk of cold granite seems more alive than a dead human being. You don't expect a stone to move. A person robbed of all motion and...
Nothing frightens me more than the faith in my daughter’s eyes. How many men deserve that kind of trust? One by one, the mentors I’ve most admired eventually revealed chinks in their armor, cracks in...
Looking down the road that runs along the bluff, I spy a solitary figure in the rain. The Turning Angel.