Administrators don’t believe in conspiracies. If they did, they’d have to resign their jobs. That
ALL MEN HAVE a religion or totems of some kind. Even the atheist is committed to an enormous act of faith in his belief that the universe created itself and the subsequent creation of intelligent life...
A category 5 hurricane carries an explosive force several times greater than that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
While you’re laying off the hooch and working the program, your disease is doing push-ups and waiting for the day you slip. You can ease back into the dirty boogie or hit the floor running, but I prom...
When it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that co...
What do you say to people who are doing their best when their best is not enough?
Said. Whatdid you say? she said. He shifted his rifle to his left hand and spun her in the opposite direction, then pushed her hard between the shoulder blades, snapping her head back. When she
Politicians were liars who served the interests of corporations, that populists were con artists, and that the poor were kept poor and uneducated as long as possible.
Odium,
From which I had graduated in 1960 with a teacher’s certificate and a degree in English.
Documented in a security file was of no concern to him. The fact that a man like Joe Tex could have access to it
Degree of civility I normally possess, he said. What’d she say?
Crowd again. I think we blew an opportunity. But maybe
A novel by Ron Hansen titled The Kid, the best story I ever read about the Lincoln County cattle wars.
You’ve got another problem. Like most white trash, you’re disrespectful to your betters and proud of your stupidity and ignorance.
You pull on dat ’gator’s tail, he gonna clean your kneecaps, him.
Women are the perfect creation. I don’t care who hears that. Even before I hit puberty, they lived nightly in my dreams, and I have the feeling they’ll live with me in the grave.
Whenever I hear and see a politician or a military leader, a bank of American flags at his back, trying to convince us of the rightness of a policy or a deed that will cause harm to others; when I am...
When you love somebody, you give up making decisions just for yourself.
What we do is punish the people who are available, she said.