Moe was a triple threat.He could sing, dance, and act?She shook her head. He could speak Armenian, saddle break a stallion, and pass for a female in drag.
Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.
It was astounding how a woman, when she struck marital gold, procured not just a new wardrobe and new friends but a new voice straight out of a 1930s gramophone (brittle, mono-stereo) and a vocabulary...
I think I've heard this story before. He died alone?Everyone dies alone.
For the record, there were no framed pictures of me around our house, and the only class portrait Dad had ever ordered was the one from Sparta Elementary in which I'd sat, knees glued together, in fro...
Dad once noted (somewhat morbidly, I thought at the time) that American institutions would be infinitely more successful in facilitating the pursuit of knowledge if they held classes at night, rather...
Dad on Child-rearing: There's no education superior to travel. Think of The Motorcycle Diaries, or what Montrose St. Millet wrote in Ages of Exploration: 'To be still is to be stupid. To be stupid is...
Could something be real when all evidence of it was gone? Was something categorically true if it lived on only in your head, same as your dreams?
But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth.
As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.
All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence.
The mountains hugged each other sternly, similar to the way men hugged other men, not letting their chests touch. Thin clouds hung around their necks, and the mountains farthest away, the ones passed...
But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That’s when all the real things were said.
A wife sets the ambience of a man’s life.