How many major decisions did you actually make?
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 perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves in the winter forest will crawl with life in the spring, that our story is ongoing an...
Besides, isn’t it better to let evil die inside its own flame?
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...
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.
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.
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
Recidivists licensed bondsmen wouldn’t pick up by the ears with Q-Tips,
Ken
Just another gargoyle that took up temporary residence in Danny Boy’s dreams and went away. Some people say insomnia is a disorder.
Felt foolish and wondered if I had entered that self-deluded stage in an aging man’s life when others have to protect him from knowledge
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?
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 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 are the sum total of what we have done and where we have been, and I sincerely believe that in many ways the world in which I grew up was better than the one in which we live today.
We all got human weaknesses, noble mon. All I got to do is see her on TV and my Johnson starts barking.