«Y a Raymer, mientras la esperaba, le dio por pensar que esperar a una mujer que había olvidado algo era uno de los placeres más infravalorados de la vida.Cuántas veces, a punto de ir a cualquier luga...
You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?
People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.
I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be a...
Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the...
Max would conclude, that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.
No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn'...
The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.
The sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.
Perfect silence. This in response to Sully's key being turned in the ignition of the pickup.
You've become a clever man.
Interesting, Miles thought. Like himself, Father Mark, as a child, had been reassured by the imagined proximity of God, whereas adults, perhaps because they so often were up to no good, took more comf...
Ragged piece of thin glass jutted out of the socket, all that was left of the
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.
A plot, I used to remind my students, is not merely a sequence of events: A followed by B followed by C followed by D. Rather, it's a series of events linked by cause and effect: A causes B, which cau...
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
Like I said, what makes people tick isn’t neccessarily what makes them good. Fast-forward,
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.
Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.
…imagination without energy remains inert...
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