But ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker? I...
Busthead
Because they listened to Black Sabbath. Why didn’t he get the injection table?
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 don’t have anything, you don’t know anything, you’re just a noise like a fart in somebody’s pants, Segura said.
What we do is punish the people who are available, she said.
What Victor Charles and the NVA couldn’t do to him, or the Mob or his enemies inside NOPD, Clete had done to himself with fried food, booze, weed, whites on the half shell, and calamitous affairs with...
We had little money but didn’t think of ourselves as poor. Our vision, if I can call it that, was not materialistic. If we had a concept about ourselves, it was egalitarian, although we would not have...
We get hurt worse by the people whom we care about. And they seldom mean to do it. That’s what makes it so painful, kiddo.
We all got human weaknesses, noble mon. All I got to do is see her on TV and my Johnson starts barking.
WHEN ISHMAEL WOKE, the walls of his trench were seeping water and the dawn was colder than it should have been, the sky an unnatural and ubiquitous pale color that had less to do with the rising of th...
Varina was breathing hard through her nose, her face pinched, not unlike a child’s. You don’t know how mad you can make people, she said. I had tender feelings for you once, whether you knew it or not...
Unfortunately, at a certain age, wanting something you can’t be or wanting what you can’t have can become a way of life.
Tomorrow has no more existence than yesterday, but you can always control now. We live in a series of nows. Think about now.
There are events you witness, or in which you participate, that forever remain sacrosanct and inviolate in memory, no matter how painful that memory is, because of the cost that you or others paid in...
The rumors that he did business with the Giacanos were I’m sure true. To what degree was up for debate. In the state of Louisiana, systemic venality is a given. The state’s culture, mind-set, religiou...
The false dawn, with its illusions and mist-wrapped softness, can be as inadequate and fleeting as Morpheus’ gifts. CHAPTER 2 The days became warmer the first week in April, and on some mornings I wen...
The band played La Jolie Blon a second time. For me, there is no more haunting ballad in the world. Its origins go back to the eighteenth century, but the rendition by Harry Choates is the one that ne...
Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day.