As a southerner I had been brought up to believe that through conditioning and experience you could accept with some measure of tranquility any of the flaws in the human situation. But death is one fl...
Albert never told anyone of what the guard did to him. But sometimes he smells the guard's stink in his sleep, a combination of chewing tobacco and hair oil and testosterone and dried sweat that had b...
There are moments when we understand that the earth and the sky and the presences that may lie behind them are always with us.
The only argument you ever win is the one you don’t have.
Symbolize the ruinous consequence of America’s decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved.
Soldiers who return from foreign battlefields with a syndrome that survivors of the Great War called the thousand-yard stare.
Scullions
Past Louis Armstrong Park, a place no white person in his right mind enters either day or night,
Inextricable
He had kept encased in glass hanging from an
PEOPLE ARE WHAT they do, not what they think, not what they say.
My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.
Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is.
It's fair to say that mortality takes many manifestations, but so does the indomitable nature of the human spirit, and it does so in ways that are sometimes hardly noticeable.
I messed my pants, he said.
I drove to the bar Theodosha had called from and parked on the street. The bar was a gray, dismal place, ensconced like a broken matchbox under a dying oak tree, its only indication of gaiety a neon b...
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.
I also smell it on you.
How do you get mad at a man who speaks in Petrarchan sonnets?
God, don’t let me be an old fool, I prayed.