They seemed to have the coloration and texture of the rubber in a pencil eraser. They
There's another way to put it. Sometimes your luck runs out and you have to accept that the life you planned was a dream written on water.
Then millions of lights came on in the canyons, along the freeways, and through the vast sweep of the Los Angeles basin, and it was almost as if you were looking down upon the end point of the America...
The wrong people always worry. The people who are the real problem never worry about anything.
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 air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.
The advantage of having a little knowledge about the classical world is that few other people do. The second advantage is your awareness that every problem facing us today has already occurred many ti...
The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.
Sometimes the father poured a sack full of dry rice on the floor and made Clete kneel on the kernels until sunrise; sometimes he sat on the side of the bed and gently touched Clete’s face with a hand...
Sometimes if you listen, you can hear the earth stop, like it's waiting for you to catch up with it. Like it's your friend and it wants you to be at peace with it.
Somehow sleep allows us to see clearly those very things that are obscured by the light of day.
Shakespeare said that all power lies in the world of dreams, and I believe him.
No one likes to be afraid. Fear is the enemy of love & faith & it robs us of our sleep & our sunrise & makes us treacherous & venal& fills our glands with toxins & effaces our identity & gives flight...
No matter what occurs in your life, no matter how bad the circumstances seem to be, you must never consider a dishonorable act as a viable alternative.
My experience has been that grief and loss do not necessarily become more acceptable with time, and commitment to them is of no value to either the living or the dead.
Mexico was not a country, Krill thought. It was a revolution that had never stopped.
Maybe he would come back one day. Or maybe not. Back then, people had a way of walking down a tar road and crossing through a pool of heat and disappearing forever.
Louisiana is not a state; it’s an outdoor mental asylum in which millions of people stay bombed most of their lives. That’s not an exaggeration. Cirrhosis is a family heirloom.
Joe Molinari’s role in life had been being used by others, as consumer and laborer and voter and minion, which, in the economics of the world I grew up in, was considered normal by both the liege lord...
I’ve got a worse scenario, one I can’t get out of my head sometimes, Clete said. I wake up with it in the middle of the night. Some mornings, too. That’s when it really gets bad. What does? The dream....