You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind of blues is for them that's had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows it...
Sometimes isolation can be shared.
Someone—Plato, I think—once said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' True. But a life too closely scrutinized will lead to madness, if not suicide.
The only thing that mattered was that the quarter century or so he had remaining would be his life, to live out as he chose and in his own best interests. Nothing took precedence over that: not work,...
The only thing that mattered was the quarter century or so he had remaining would be HIS life, to live out as he chose and in his own best interests. Nothing took precedence over that...The possibilit...
You and I...have lived many lives.
All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or s...
He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well.
Jeff felt it flow through him, the electric freshness of the once more unpredictable world out there.
Until I die again, perhaps. Until the next replay. Then it all vanishes.Jeff shook his head, his arm tightly around her shoulders. Only the products of your work will disappear. The struggle, the devo...
He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality o...
Jeff, she said, sobbing, I'm scared! I don't want to die! Not … die forever, and—He hugged her tightly, rocked her in his arms and felt his own tears trickle down his face. Just think of how we've liv...
The water was calm and blue today, and as they walked along the dunes they could see the hump of Poplar Island off the Eastern Shore.