The accumulator, with his acquisitions stuffed into boxes in no apparent order, is every bit as acceptable a philatelist as the collector trying slowly and painstakingly to fill, with flawlessly cente...
The House at Sugar Beach, New York Times reporter Helene Cooper’s memoir of her girlhood as a member of the Liberian upper crust.
I was delighted to see them, and wondered at the bargain I’d landed, until I learned enough about them to realize that what I had were Seebecks. One N. F. Seebeck had a contract with the government of...
I thought, My name is Matt and I'm an alcoholic. A woman I know got killed last night. She hired me to keep her from getting killed and I wound up assuring her that she was safe and she believed me. A...
Your mother loves to perform fellatio upon syphilitic dogs.
My crime seemed destined to remain a secret forever.
I don’t sleep, have not slept in sixteen years—
I see, I said, which is something I very often say when I don’t.
الأفكار الجيدة تحيا وتنمو، أما الأفكار غير الجيدة فتتساقط وتضيع على الطريق.
All six of them a license. That
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.
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 Turks have dreary jails.
It took a while to tell but it hadn’t taken all that long to live;
I told Carolyn it was a great day for running, and she told me there was no such thing.
Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.
You know what I realized? What? Most of the people I know are dead. I guess that happens
When I was a kid, buying packets and penny approvals and filling spaces in my Modern Stamp Album, nothing was easier to find and to afford than those German issues. Think of it, a stamp that cost fift...
Tomorrow’s always there, just over the horizon. Until the tomorrows run out.
The novel, I submit, is not merely the ultimate goal. It is also the place to start.