Was this all there was to life, after all? You finished school, found an occupation, got married, became a father, watched your wife die, and then lived through days and nights that seemed to have no...
A: Funny about my mother. All my life, from the time I was just a little kid, I thought of her as a sad person. I mean, the way some people are tall or fat or skinny. My father always seemed the stron...
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?
Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there...
And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.
Внизу плакатика стояла надпись: Осмелюсь ли я потревожить вселенную? Слова Элиота — автора «Бесплодной земли», которую они проходили по литературе. [...]— Все будет хорошо, Джерри.Нет, не будет. Он уз...
I have always pondered a tragic law of adolescence. (On second thought, the law probably applies to all ages to some extent). That law: People fall in love at the same time—often at the same stunning...
Eric Poole began with cats. Or, to be more exact, kittens.
A smile for all the stupid people out there with bleeding hearts for serial killers.
We just might make a quarterback out of you yet, you skinny little son of a bitch.
They tell you to do your thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your own thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too. It's a laugh, Goober, a fake. Don't disturb the universe,...
At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there.
Archie believed in always doing the smart thing. Not the thing you ached to do, not the impulsive act, but the thing that would pay off later.
The cheese stands aloneThe cheese stands aloneHeigh-ho the merry-oThe cheese stands alone
What have I done, Obie?Obie flung his hand in the air, the gesture encompassing all the rotten things that had occur under Archie's command, at Archie's direction. The ruined kids, the capsized hopes....
They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.
I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That...
She didn't want to look ahead to the days and the months and the years with him. Here, now, in this room, it was all right, but later? Again, time couldn't stop. And she saw at last that time only sto...
It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.