Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the se...
It is August.My life is going to change. I feel it.
But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outs...
But I guess even the knights were vessels to someone. Isn't that the way it worked? But then everyone is always a vessel to someone.
I don't know why, but I suddenly felt a long way away from everybody I had known and loved when I was a girl. I missed people. For a minute I stood there and wished I could get back to that time. Then...
You have to have been in love to write poetry.
How far would you run with a piece of lead in your heart?
Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.
You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
She won't give him back his look.
Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.
In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.
At leastI want to get up early one more morning,before sunrise. Before the birds, even.I want to throw cold water on my faceand be at my work tablewhen the sky lightens and smokebegins to rise from th...
And certain things around us will change, become easier or harder, one thing or the other, but nothing will ever really be any different. I believe that. We have made our decisions, our lives have bee...
A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don’t matter a damn anymore.
It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
But I guess even the knights were vessels to someone. Isn't that the way it worked? But then everyone is always a vessel to someone. Isn't that right, Terri? But what I liked about the knights, beside...
The past is unclear. It's as if there is a film over those early years. I can't even be sure that the things I remember happening really happened to me.
It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the...