I always had the sense that Desmond was trying to shrink inside his clothes, as though both fear and a great sadness lived inside him.
I also figuredd out that what we call our destiny is usually determined by two or three casual decision which on the surface seem about as important as spitting your gum through a sewer grate.
Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, an...
Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.
Every drunkard has many moments of shame that live like carpet tacks in his memory,
Cancer and lightning go where they want. So does political corruption.
But as John Steinbeck had said long ago, we had come to fear a man with a hole in his shoe.
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...
And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that the bravest and most loyal and loving people in the world seldom have heroic...
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...
Wimples
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
Recidivists licensed bondsmen wouldn’t pick up by the ears with Q-Tips,
Profligacy
Jakes,
God bless the world
Each morning is a blessing, as votive in nature as a communion wafer raised to the sky.