In a badass, beer-glass brawl, would you rather have an academic liberal covering your back or a hobnailed redneck?
If you have attended the dying, you know what their last moments are like. They anticipate the separation of themselves from the world of the living before you do, and they accept it with dignity and...
I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under a...
His round, pink face was smiling and happy, his green eyes lighted with an alcoholic shine.
He was riding back through a doorway in time to a place that had nothing to do with the airplanes, and motorized vehicle and telephones wires, and radios that surrounded him now....... The woods in la...
He had learned in Vietnam there were three groups of people who got you killed—pencil pushers, amateurs, and idealists.
Get a lot of gone between you and this situation.
Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.
But as William Faulkner said, and as I was about to learn, the past is not only still with us, the past is not even the past. The warning call from Wally,
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.
Besides, isn’t it better to let evil die inside its own flame?
Barbara Shanahan, sometimes known as Battering Ram Shanahan. She was over six feet tall and had freckles and wore her light red hair cut short and wore a blue suit with white hose. She worked hard and...
Baptized Christians ran the ovens in the camps.
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 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.
At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms.
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...
A category 5 hurricane carries an explosive force several times greater than that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
Spent the rest of the afternoon in my room. A faucet was ticking in the bathroom as loudly as a mechanical clock, with the same sense of urgency and waste. I tried to tighten the
Odium,