Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
In Texas, rocks are considered an adequate weaponry during schoolyard scuffles. Dallas children carry a brace of loaded pistols, a concealed Derringer, and a 6 inch Toadsticker in one boot. That's the...
I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed.
How long ago did she die, Wyatt? Morgan pressed. Is it nine years now?Eight, Wyatt said, halfway between stubborn and sad. I promised to love her all my life, Morg. I meant to keep my word.That shut M...
Giuliani could never understand the price scholarship boys paid for their education: the inevitable alienation from your uncomprehending family, from roots, from your own first person, from the origin...
Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I’m presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
Certainly, nobody imagined that Mr. Lincoln would order an armed invasion over the affair. When he did exactly that, the entire South exploded with defiance and patriotism, cheering the new nation—sov...
Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book.
Doc's idea of clarifyin' a point of contention came awful close to spitting in a man's eye.
Wyatt, I’m from Chicago, Eddie told him. Let me explain politics to you.
When she finished, no one clapped or even breathed, for they were still inside that sacred place that music can sometimes create.
The strain of a long illness will exhaust the most compassionate.
Sighing, he rose from his desk and walked to the windows to stare out at the Vatican through the rain. What a burden men like Sandoz carried into the field. Over four hundred of Ours to set the standa...
Religion – the wishful thinking of an ape that talks! You know what I think?’ he asked rhetorically, trying to distract himself from yet another death. ‘Random shit happens, and we turn it into storie...
Now here’s my idea about God. I think we’re like the cat. I think that God is like the man outside the box. I think that if the cat believes in the man, the man is there. And if the cat is an atheist,...
It was just as well that neither Wyatt nor Morgan inquired about the provenance of the teeth themselves, for Wyatt’s new ones were among the hundreds of thousands collected from battlegrounds, sorted...
It is a scholar’s task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it’s no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a p...
In the past few years, he’d worked as a part-time policeman in a string of Kansas cow towns. Each time he was sworn in, he made an effort to study the ordinances he was supposed to enforce, but he was...
Every one of them [prostitutes] has a story, and every story begins with a man who failed her. A husband who came home from the war, good for nothin' but drink. A father who didn't come home at all, o...
Dust rises at every step, fine as flour. It is dried river silt, that dust. Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book.