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
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.
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.
We don’t forgive people because they deserve it, she said. We forgive them because we deserve it.
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.
Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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
He wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did say them, he felt no need to repeat them for changing company.
Probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it.
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. And, of course, my idea of en...
She never answers during the day, Max explained. She lets her machine pick up.People like you are the reason other people get answering machines to begin with, Miles told him. In fact, people like you...
Really? When? Had all his material become threadbare? After thirty years of marriage, were you supposed to come up with new stuff all the time?
A silly lie. A lie so small and to so little purpose that it suggested to Miles a way of life, a strategy for confronting the world, and this was further reason—if any was needed—to doubt the truth of...
Mr. Purty has cheered me up. 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...
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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?
Tick's strategy for dealing with lying adults is to say nothing and watch thee lies swell and constrict in their throats. when this happens, the lie takes on a physical life of its own and must be eit...