Caitlin is right, although her argument would probably offend every woman on the jury.
Broad is the gate that leads to destruction, but narrow the way that leads to salvation. . . .
And a man who does nothing during a crisis is as bad as a man who causes one.
That right meant more than might; that being faithful and good meant more than being rich; that honor superseded all.
Obeisance
Have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now.
Darkness turned to noon. Even with the nose cone of the Learjet pointed away from the blast, the flash blinded everyone inside. Diaz lost control of the aircraft. It pitched over into a screaming, spi...
Came across a letter by T. S. Eliot, who I had always vaguely assumed was English. To my surprise, I discovered that Eliot had grown up along the same river I had, in St. Louis, and to a friend he wro...
You want the party line or the real answer? You know what I want. His eyes shine as he shakes his head. Penn, these girls…they’re not the girls we went to school with, okay? There’s a group of girls h...
Wingate sighs thoughtfully. Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it. But the vision was there. Between the fifth and twelfth paintings, h...
Will on the phone, the sooner you stop bleeding. Hickey dialed a number and
We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know the truth requires understanding, the...
Southern women don’t show their pain to anybody. They aren’t raised that way. But they feel it.
Quentin finishes with the limb and sits up. Who wears the pants in your family, man? That depends on the issue.
Posts oriented into a Woodhenge, a huge circle for astronomical observations. Like Stonehenge? Exactly like that. Or Cahokia, a similar site up in Illinois.
Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they’re paralyzed by fear.
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...
Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it's not even past. All of us labor in...
Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.
And the black politicians…my God. I’ve watched black aldermen do patently illegal things and then brag about it. They don’t care whether something is legal or not. White politicians abused the system...