Country people do not have enough to do with their minds. Their backs are strong, but their lives—year after year, it is the same. They are tired of being bored. So they start to think about the wrong...
But when the call came from Shirley Pedler to help in organizing the Utah Coalition Against the Death Penalty, she knew she would go out in the world again with her freaky blond hair, blond to everyon...
But I am infinitely more sorrowful about the two victims’ families than the fact Mr. Gilmore is no longer alive.
You men are a bunch of god-damned women.
You let everything stand until it's knocked over and then you go over and write your own ruins
You know, he laughed easily, with all the goddam drinkin’ Ah’ve done, Ah still can’t remember the taste of it unless Ah got the bottle right with me.
Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get.
There seems to be endless capacity for strife in your system. Of course there is. Doesn’t that fit human nature?
The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable.
The mark of a truly stupid man, he announced to Klara, is that he takes his own occupation so seriously that he comes to believe it is superior to others.
She was one old lady who had the real heat of suspicion—it irritated her when the silver count was correct (as it always was) because paranoia that cannot be confirmed is more difficult to bear than a...
No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Tex...
Listenmy lovethe houris latemy sidehas anacheIfyou don'tget ataximy heartwill break
I will now make an apology, although I will do my best not to repeat it. (Good readers do not read fiction, after all, to put up with the author’s regrets.)
I will now make an apology, although I will do my best not to repeat it. (Good readers do not read fiction, after all, to put up with the author’s regrets.) I will say that having read the best and wo...
I guess all that's left is to love the fire.
I HATE EVERYTHING WHICH IS NOT IN MYSELF
Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its ess...
Hearn’s death was happily smudged, or at least on the surface, but ever since the second ambush he had been feeling the apprehension of a man in a dream who knows he is guilty, is waiting for his puni...
He was full of love—for himself, first, and his prowess—such a fine power at his age. Then, he felt a degree of love for her—