Death was a rodent that ate its way inch by inch through your entrails, chewed at your liver and stomach, severed tendon from organ, until finally, when you were along in the dark, it sat gorged and s...
As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifl...
All our dreams and hopes become as naught, and evil men are allowed to hang their lanterns on our tombstones. What greater folly is there?
Believe long ago had decided it was better to be first in Gaul rather than second in Rome.
There may be room in government service for the altruist and the iconoclast, but I have yet to see one who was not treated as an oddity at best and at worst an object of suspicion and fear.
There are not many places left in the United States where people can get off the computer, stop filing tax returns, and in effect become invisible. The rain forests in the Cascades and parts of West M...
The woman considered the wisest person in old New Orleans was a witch by the name of Marie LeVeau.
The false dawn, with its illusions and mist-wrapped softness, can be as inadequate and fleeting as Morpheus’ gifts.
Night Comes to the Cumberland.
I still wanted to believe George Orwell’s admonition that people are always better than we think they are.
I hit him so hard spittle and blood flew from his mouth onto a woman’s blouse four feet away. I drove my fist into his kidney, a blow that made his back arch as though his spine had been broken, then...
I had seen a dawn like this one only twice in my life: once in Vietnam, when a Bouncing Betty had risen from the earth on a night trail and twisted its tentacles of light around my thighs, and years e...
He had been humiliated and treated like the white trash he was. Under the bedsheet that hides the identity of every Ku Klux Klansman is a cretinous, vicious, and childlike human being whose last holdo...
…He has finally learned that lying to oneself is an offense for which human beings seldom grant themselves absolution.He comes to believe that acceptance of a wintry place in the soul and a refusal to...
The crowd, bathed in light, his posture and trim
The belly button; hair protruded from the top of his belt. This is Travis Lebeau, Clete said. Tell Dave what
Resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.
One of the basic tenets of A.A.—that there is no possession more valuable than a sober sunrise, and any drunk who demands more out of life than that will probably
His motor control still functioned but his soul went somewhere else.
Dreams are not a mystery. They simply represent our hopes and fears,