I don’t try to correct yesterday’s mistakes in the present. I mark them off. I truly mark them off. A person hurts me only once.
I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.
God, don’t let me be an old fool, I prayed.
Forget morality tales and all the fury and mire of human complexity, and follow the money. It will lead you through urban legends about sex and revenge and jealousy and the acquisition of power over o...
Be your own man, even if you don’t add up to much.
. . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become...
Wimples
Symbolize the ruinous consequence of America’s decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved.
Solipsistic
Jakes,
Go with the wind, all of us twirling among young people who wore flowers in their hair, a church bell clanging without stop in a Spanish mission. Roll on forever, Woody.
Eyes like light trapped in sherry,
Application when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fin...
About voices that can cry out for help in our sleep.
You just got sprung.Nig Rosewater out there? Clete asked.Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II.
You don’t realize the gift you have.
Wicked men do not go away of their own accord.
This piece of land was our original sin, except we had found no baptismal rite to expunge it from our lives. That green-purple field of new cane was rooted in rib cage and eye socket. But what of the...
There are those who are made different in the womb.
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...