In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a su...
In a badass, beer-glass brawl, would you rather have an academic liberal covering your back or a hobnailed redneck?
I would start with four fingers of Jack in a thick mug, with a sweating Budweiser back, and by midnight I would be alone at the end of the bar, armed, drunk, and hunched over my glass, morally and psy...
I would like to believe that there is a resolution in the human tragedy and that order can be reimposed upon the earth in the same way it occurs in the fifth act of the Elizabethan drama that supposed...
I love you, bwana, but sometimes I think I committed an unpardonable sin in a former life, and you were put here to give me a second chance.
I long ago became convinced that the most reliable source for arcane and obscure and seemingly unobtainable information does not lie with the government or law enforcement agencies. Apparently neither...
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.
He knows things don’t happen in order, like past, present, and future.
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...
But a line sergeant told me something I never forgot. ‘Don’t think about it before it happens, and don’t think about it when it’s over.
At age nineteen I did not want to accept the possibility that a man’s murder could be treated with the social significance of a hangnail that had been snipped off someone’s finger.
As flawed as Southern culture is, mendacity has always been treated in the South as a despicable characteristic. Notice how often Southerners casually address others as you son of a bitch with no insu...
Alcoholism is not a disease here but a venerated family heirloom.
According to legend, he had worn elegant clothes and spoken Parisian French and had his land and wealth stolen from him by carpetbaggers after the war.
A man is what he does. Titles are a distraction created to deceive obtuse people.
Recidivists licensed bondsmen wouldn’t pick up by the ears with Q-Tips,
Just another gargoyle that took up temporary residence in Danny Boy’s dreams and went away. Some people say insomnia is a disorder.
Each morning is a blessing, as votive in nature as a communion wafer raised to the sky.
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...
Because they listened to Black Sabbath. Why didn’t he get the injection table?