I don't like to bust drunk drivers. I don't like to listen to their explanations, watch their pitiful attempts to affect sobriety, or see the sheen of fear break out in their eyes when they realize th...
How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?
How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?
Hope was the light that allowed man to prevail in the worst of circumstances. But it also could become the narcotic of the self-deluded and the naive.
Emmeline seemed to lie the way all narcissists do. Whatever they say, regardless of its absurdity, becomes the truth.
But the past is the past, and you don’t get it back.
At a certain age, you realize the greatest loss you can experience is a theft you perpetrate upon yourself—the waste of days given us. Is there any more piercing remorse than the realization that a pe...
All drunks, particularly those who grew up in alcoholic homes, have that same sense of angst and trepidation, one that has no explainable origins. The fear is not necessarily self-centered, either. It...
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the chil...
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.
And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.
Vituperative
Thankful
Of the story showed the four brain-destroyed women Linda Gail had shown me. The grainy transfer of the images to newsprint had made them even more macabre. The story had come off the wire in Los Angel...
Money and money and money, the one item that human beings will go to any lengths to acquire.
If you haven’t noticed, the United States government is the biggest weapons manufacturer in the world.
How many decisions did you make that at the time seemed inconsequential but down the track had enormous influence on either you or others?
Caused him to drop his membership in the ACLU and join the National Rifle Association.
About himself.
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?