I was starting to get to know the city, and when that happens in a screwed-up place, it’s time to leave.
I only drink a little, but when I do, I become a different person, and that person drinks a lot.
As we say, if your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.
As he’d thought, and as he’d always known, Henry and Vivian were better suited for each other. But better is not best, and though he was angry— and hurt— he was also concerned about Vivian. He still l...
And there was a time, you know, not so long ago, as recently as my own childhood in fact, when everyone believed in the future and eagerly awaited it or rushed to meet it. But now nearly everyone I kn...
Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.
I regarded Novac a moment. He had on an awful gray poplin cotton suit, the sort of thing that prisons issue when they set you free. He wore shoes that actually had gum soles, and the uppers were made...
He understood, too, that they had not necessarily been chosen to succeed, or even to live. But they'd been chosen to find the Holy Grail that was within themselves. And that's what this was always abo...
Every veteran since the first war got fucked big-time. Maybe you should stop feeling sorry for yourself. There’s no war long enough or bad enough to mess up your head as bad as you messed it up yourse...
An Englishman once said that he found it easier to be a member of a club than of the human race because the bylaws were shorter, and he knew all the members personally. That sounds about right.
Americans lived in the moment, without history and thus without prophecy.
A big Russian lady, who seemed to be the household cook, supervised the making of zakuski -- Russian hors d'oeuvres, which unfortunately didn't include pigs-in-a-blanket. What kind of party is this?
Concurring.’ But now we know what I suspected. Two people on the board voted for acquittal, which means there are
There is a vitality here of people, pursuing their own lives, unburdened by government interference. The price of nearly absolute freedom is borderline anarchy. A little law and order wouldn’t hurt. W...
Oddly enough, I didn’t recall feeling that way the week before. I wasn’t certain how this revelation came about, but revelations are like that; they just smack you across the face one day, and you kno...
I want to be back to work next week.'Let’s get you home first. I need to evaluate the extent of your mental impairment.' She tried to flash me the peace sign, but in her weakend condition, she only ma...
I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs. There’s probably a third category—the naggers, who try to get you t...
Confrontational is when I pull my gun. Argumentative is when I pull the trigger.
And they looked like poor fishermen. But this was Cuba, where everyone had a second job.
When I was in boarding school, which is English-run, I read a very beautiful passage---something that George VI said in his Christmas message to the English people, in the darkest year of the war, 'Gi...