To Robert, he wrote, In Texas, rocks are considered inadequate weaponry during school yard scuffles. Dallas children carry a brace of loaded pistols, a concealed Deringer, and a six-inch toadsticker i...
The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?
Show God what yer made of, man. Pucker up and kiss the cross.
Our physicists have confirmed the practicality of using an altered asteroid for transport,
Listen', he said seriously, 'I'm not just wasting your time telling funny stories. You have to know about stuff like this or your program is going to claim it's found intelligent life on Mars. And eve...
I honestly don’t know if the world would be better or worse if we all held ourselves to the vows of our youth.
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.
Her life had been blessedly unburdened by happiness. When some period of fleeting contentment ended, Sofia Mendes did not register it as outrageous, but merely noted a return to life’s normal conditio...
Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her...
Celestina Giuliani learned the word slander at her cousin's baptism.
Bein' born is craps. How we live is . Mamma played a bad hand well.
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.
She was, after all, a practical woman and the daughter of an economist.
And yet, in the end, did Klara Hitler's sickly son ever fire a gun? One hollow, hateful little an. One last awful thought: all the harm he ever did was done for him by others.
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...
They strolled toward town, stopping now and then to let him catch his breath and to gaze upward, for the west Kansas sky is black velvet on clear, cool December nights, and the Milky Way is strung acr...
The sparrow still falls.
Raise your sights, sugar. Aim low all you'll hit is rats, snakes and rock bottom from Epitaph
It didn’t occur to him to think that better is not the same as well. Was he fooling himself? He would not have said so. Even at twenty-two, when his diagnosis was confirmed, he was realistic. Most suf...
I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religions into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known.