They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much.
There was an unspoken understanding that when a reporter chased a story, hunches and theories became airborne and other reporters could catch them like a cold.
The bad things that happen to you don’t have to mean anything at all.
Smoke was a person with a sense of history. Do you know what I mean? ...in truth, I DID know what she meant. Da Vinci, Martin Luther King, Jr., Genghis Kahn, Abraham Lincoln, Bette Davis - if you read...
She looked at me as if I were a snag in tights.
People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.
Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.
Most of the kids had been so mentally screwed up by their parents they needed more than twelve weeks of wilderness. They needed reincarnation. To die and just come back as a grasshopper, as a fucking...
Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the...
Maybe she was really good at improv. I couldn't be certain she was nineteen or that her name really was Nora Halliday. Maybe she was like one of those sweaters with an innocent little thread hanging o...
I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.
I took a step inside to get a better look and realized the man was actually Christ, the way he appeared in Sunday-school classrooms: milky complexion, starched blue dressing gown, a beard trimmed as p...
I think I repeated the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in my head at least one thousand times: the mathematical product of the combined uncertainties of concurrent measurements of position and moment...
I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it’s there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there.
Freak the ferocious out.
Do I dare?
But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.
America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism,not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation thatgentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she...
Always life your life with your biography in mind. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a magnificent reason, but at the very least you'll be living grandly.
They're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.