She was, after all, a practical woman and the daughter of an economist.
Deus vult, mes amis, Marc Robichaux called cheerfully from the galley. God likes it that way.
Our physicists have confirmed the practicality of using an altered asteroid for transport,
For Russian Jews, Zionism was an immediate solution to age-old problems.Anywhere is better than Russia, Karl agreed, but for Western Jews, Zionism is a trap, I think. Once Jews are permitted a territo...
His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for not being perfect, make amends, and get on with life.
Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize...
Abandon a dachshund and upon your return, you may well be confronted with a small token of her displeasure. This, for the dachshund, is an undignified but necessary form of training. Eventually, you w...
Eternal beginner, starting over and over in a new place in new circumstances, with new languages, new people, a new commission. They had this in common: the continual rushed confrontation with change,...
Sadie was at his side when the old desire to leave everything behind rose up in him again.Suppose . . . he began. Suppose . . .Then he moved on, one last time.
Bein' born is craps. How we live is . Mamma played a bad hand well.
Bein' born is craps, he decided. He glanced at Morg and let loose that sly, lopsided smile of his. How we live is poker.
You know what’s the most terrifying thing about admitting that you’re in love? she asked him. You are just naked. You put yourself in harm’s way and you lay down all your defenses. No clothes, no weap...
Home, he said softly. If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.
You’ve seen what, Emilio conceded, but not why! That’s where God is, Anne. In the why of it—in the meaning.
As far as Wyatt Earp knew, it was not illegal to beat a horse. 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...
It no longer came as a surprise to John Candotti that people found him easy to confess to. He was tolerant of human failings and it was rarely difficult for him to say, Well, you screwed up. Everybody...
I'll take honest arrogance over fake humility any day.
Ringo's chuckle got tangled up with a cough. He tossed back a shot, cleared his throat, and said, Politics, from the Latin. , meaning 'many.' meaning 'bloodsucking little bastards.
And Johannes Voelker is the last man on Earth I’d choose as a spiritual director for Sandoz, he thought. Shit or get off the pot, my son.
Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not...
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