People cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It
It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for not taking the world too seri...
Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.
One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.
…a story is like a virus that can rage only for as long as there are new hosts to infect.
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens...
Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.
Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man and one who’d been raised to accept life’s mysteries—the Blessed Trinity, for one instance, a woman’s reasoning, for another.
What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.
They're around back, she calls down when Julie and I get out. Planning their strategy. Good for them, I say, confident that no strategy that isn't grounded in chaos theory is likely to work against a...
About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug sto...
Grace believed that those who could see their duty clearly were required by God to do the heavy lifting for the morally blind. Where
If you paid me for work, continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old peopl...
Just because things happen slow doesn't mean you'll be ready for them. If they happened fast, you'd be alert for all kinds of suddenness, aware that speed was trump. Slow works in an altogether differ...
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
Since turning in his resignation, he’d been wondering what he might do next. Suddenly his path seemed clear. He would become an alcoholic. He
We don’t forgive people because they deserve it, she said. We forgive them because we deserve it.
It was hard to imagine him in love. I knew that he and my mother must have once felt passion, since that was what love entailed, but I was grateful that over time the madness had evolved into somethin...
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