You gotta try harder to be kind, man. We’re all trapped on this earth together.
Women are basically recreational areas, with several separate facilities available at any given time.
The regular campaign staff, including the regular campaign manager, had no idea that the shadow staff existed.
The Times, whose editorial portentousness approached traumatic constipation, tried to suppress its glee under the bushel basket of feigned sadness that another civil servant had been caught in a sexua...
SCHIFFER WAS LEAVING, Dannon asked Carver to do a serious look around the yard. One of the radar buzzers had been going off, Dannon said, and he hadn’t been able to isolate why. Probably another godda...
Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean.
Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.
LEONARD WAS A THICK, dark-haired man, Lucas’s height but heavier, both in the arms and the gut. He was wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and yellow work boots. The scars around his pale, suspicious eyes a...
Impossible to know. The thing is, you take a fork in the road, it doesn’t always work out for the better . . . but sometimes it does. It must.
I'll bring pajamas she said. Yeah? You have any idea how old I am? Not nearly as old as you're gonna be by midnight.
I understand. Does he have names? No. All he has is some basic descriptions. He said the candidate from the North saw you and a fellow he believed was related to you, and passed along the description....
GRAY-EYED COLE SAT in his bedroom window, looking out over the road, a scoped Ruger 10/22 in his hands. Squirrel rifle. Below him, a quilt hung on the wire clothesline, airing out. Before the end of t...
Flowers wouldn’t be buttering their toast after the next election, but Pweters might be.
Coyotes don’t eat dachshunds, Johnson said. Dachshunds were bred to go down badger tunnels and drag the badgers out by their ass. A good-sized dachshund could weigh thirty pounds and has jaws like a c...
Cops and schoolteachers, Sloan said with satisfaction. A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the schoolteachers. One big happy family.
California is like a Nazi state with palm trees
Operations, trying to get things straight. He now had so much metal in his pelvis that he carried a TSA Notification Card just to get on an airplane. Despite the lingering disability, he’d gone back t...
He thought a bit about God, and whether He might be some kind of universal digital computer, subject to the occasional bug or hack. Was it possible that politicians and hedge-fund operators were some...
You know, I believe every word you’ve said, but I don’t need this. I’ve got six officers working for me full-time, plus four reserve deputies and a dog, and the dog got his feet cut up on broken glass...
What joke? The one about the guy who rolls a wheelbarrow full of sawdust out of a construction site every night. I don’t know that one, Cochran said. Lucas said, The security guy keeps checking and ch...