Sometimes your luck runs out and you have to accept that the life you planned was a dream written on water.
She wondered if this were what hell was about. Not a place of punishment but of disparity. Those who had done nothing to earn their fate lived like this, while three miles away, others rode the Ferris...
No, I’m a coonass, my religion is shaky, and I’ve never hit the juice.
No, I ain’t wanted there, I don’t like it there, I ain’t coming in there . . . Good-bye.
Like many my age, I believe people in groups are to be feared and that arguing with others is folly and the knowledge of one generation cannot be passed down to the next.
If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.
If anyone tells you he’s from New Orleans and doesn’t drink, he’s probably not from New Orleans. Louisiana is not a state; it’s an outdoor mental asylum in which millions of people stay bombed most of...
I used to know a carnival man turned preacher who said the key to his success was understanding the people of what he called Snake's Navel, Arkansas. He said in Snake's Navel, the biggest thing going...
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...
Bienvenu, mon raton laveur et votre tee amis, aussi.
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...
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.
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?
When you love somebody, you give up making decisions just for yourself.
What happens outside of us doesn’t count. That’s something we don’t have control over. It’s what we do with it, the way that we react to it, that’s important.
Then she walked away, like Helen of Troy turning her back on Attica. A gust of warm wind blew newspapers along the boulevard into the sky. The light was orange and bleeding out of the clouds in the we...
The wind smelled of humus, lichen, the musky odor of pecan husks broken under the shoe, a sunshower on the fields across the bayou. But any poetry that might have been contained in that moment was los...