La verdad no sirve como sustituto de una buena respuesta.
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...
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is e...
Begin laughing too, though they have no idea why. Which
Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
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...
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
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.
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it...
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.
What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?
Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
We don’t forgive people because they deserve it, she said. We forgive them because we deserve it.
We do not want what's good for us.
Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.
She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line.
People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
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...
I don't now how you could not kid about love and still claim to have a sense of humor