You know, the truth isn’t hard to find, if you’re willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afr...
Will on the phone, the sooner you stop bleeding. Hickey dialed a number and
There it was, the choice I’d confronted so often in life: the path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.
There have been times I would have given anything for such faith, for the belief that divine justice exists somewhere in the universe. Facing Sarah’s death without it was an existential baptism of fir...
The system is broken! And one of the reasons it’s broken down here is that it’s largely run by and for black people. They simply do not place a high cultural value on education, and I’m not going to p...
Old Shelby said something interesting about facts: ‘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.
Oh. Does Mississippi have some kind of grave-desecration statute? I know they differ from state to state. Mississippi does, thank God. Anybody who comes across human remains in this state must report...
It’s a grim reality, but the river towns are dying in Mississippi, by a slow exsanguination of people and talent that functions like a wasting disease.
I guess.
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence...
Given the nature of the mind, we’ll consider the dreams of sleep to be the past, never quite accurate in recollection, always made to serve our desires (except when haunting us for our sins). And the...
For only with the deepest knowledge can one diagnose that most elusive of conditions: the truth.
Caitlin’s ambition is like a third person in the car.
Caitlin is right, although her argument would probably offend every woman on the jury.
And a man who does nothing during a crisis is as bad as a man who causes one.
All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it’s over. And that’s not life—it’s livi...
A man walks the straight and narrow all his life; he follows the rules, stays within the lines; then one day he makes a misstep. He crosses a line and sets in motion a chain of events that will take f...
When the Asian face was illuminated
Obeisance
He know how to work the computers, navigate our intranet? Would he know the user names or passwords of the reporters? No. But if Nick didn’t delete the files, then it could be anybody. How the hell do...