Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.
Cancer and lightning go where they want. So does political corruption.
At some point in your life, you have to give up anger or it will destroy your spirit the way cancer destroys living tissue.
At heart they were secular Calvinists and believed their fellow man was born in a degraded state; consequently, they oversaw atrocities with equanimity and substituted pragmatism for compassion and sl...
At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms.
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...
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.
Fear is an irrational emotion that floats from object to object like a helium balloon that you touch with your fingertips.
Documented in a security file was of no concern to him. The fact that a man like Joe Tex could have access to it
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.
We all have an extended family, people whom we recognize as our own as soon as we see them.
Unfortunately, at a certain age, wanting something you can’t be or wanting what you can’t have can become a way of life.
Through the screen, he could smell the evening as though it were a living presence, the purple and yellow flowers in his yard and the dark green wetness of the fescue part of a song that was never sup...
Those who live with insomnia and who consider sleep both an enemy and a gift will understand the following. Some of us cannot comprehend how anyone except the very good or those who have no conscience...