Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.
Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.
Your mother spreads herself for camels.
Wasn’t it Will Rogers who said he never met a man he didn’t like? Whoever it was, I’d say he didn’t get out much.
The novel, I submit, is not merely the ultimate goal. It is also the place to start.
I try to avoid eating endangered species, let alone mythical ones. You
Hopper was neither an illustrator nor a narrative painter. His paintings don’t tell stories. What they do is suggest—powerfully, irresistibly—that there are stories within them, waiting to be told. He...
Come on in, Elaine said. She’s already here. Pam, this is Mr. Scudder, Matthew Scudder. Matt, I’d like you to meet Pam.
الأفكار الجيدة تحيا وتنمو، أما الأفكار غير الجيدة فتتساقط وتضيع على الطريق.
You know what I realized? What? Most of the people I know are dead. I guess that happens
When the window turned dark, it was presumably night; when it grew blue again, I guessed that morning had come.
When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.
What does it all
She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.
Around one-thirty it started raining lightly. Almost immediately the umbrella sellers turned up on the streetcorners. You'd have thought they had existed previously in spore form, springing miraculous...
And was there anything on earth as dangerous as getting everything you ever wanted? As
You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.
WHEN you hit a gay bar in the middle of a weekday afternoon you wonder why they don’t call it something else.
Some are errors. There’s Malta 20a, for example, the 2-1/2p dull blue; it’s supposed to be surcharged One Penny, but this variety has it One Pnney. It’s affordable, and visually remarkable, and I pick...
Life, I announced, is not a B picture. Well, it ain't no De Mille epic either, boss. Things'll work out, Bernie.