Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.
Florida is full of long-range, unending road jobs that break the backs, pocketbooks, and hearts of the roadside business. The primitive, inefficient, childlike Mexicans somehow manage to survey, engin...
Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45 automatic.
I do not function too well on emotional motivations. I am wary of them. And I am wary of a lot of other things, such as plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefit...
In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."--Meyer's Law
By noon, in a gray February world, we had come down through snow flurries to land at Albany, and had taken off again. When the snow ended the sky was a luminous gray. I looked down at the winter calli...
There are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.
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For the expendable marriage, you give the expendable gift.
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
People have their acquired armor, made up of gestures and expressions and defensive chatter.
There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution. Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer ty...
I worry about everything all day long and half the night. I worry about things you never heard of.
I thundered hot water into the big tub, setting up McGee's Handy Home Treatment for Melancholy. A deep hot bath, and a strong cold drink, and a book on the tub rack. Who needs the Megrims? Surely not...
The rain had washed the sunset time to a lambent beauty.
Siesta is sweet when the light is gold, and when the vivid, young face on the pillow looks into yours, beside her, inches away, and smiles the woman-smile older than time, her exhalations warm against...
I do not like the killers, and the killing bravely and well crap. I do not like the bully boys, the Teddy Roosevelt’s, the Hemingways, the Ruarks. They are merely slightly more sophisticated versions...
A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.
Such gratitude! It hurt me to see you lose your professional standing, McGee. Like you were going soft and sentimental. So, through my own account, I put us into Fletcher and rode it up nicely and too...
Cathy introduced us. Christine stood there inside her smooth skin, warm and indolent, mildly speculative.