Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.
I usually know what the crisis of the book is going to be, though I don’t know how I’m going to get there. I try to make it bad enough that I don’t know how I’m going to get out of it. And when I get...
What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.
Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.
But then this Isabelle turned and laughed and in that instant I saw my wife. This made me weepy and these people whom I didn’t recognize exchanged furtive glances and shortly thereafter announced that...
Off, but Osgood, the photographer, was already snoring softly. He was in the center seat, wedged between John Thigpen and
She’s not your friend. She’s a barmaid.
I get poked and prodded like this every morning. I'm like a piece of meat unearthed from the back of the fridge, suspect until proven otherwise.
I stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror.
Ones I had watched.
They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.
When she comes to retrieve me [in the nursing home], after the tan-colored pudding with edible oil topping has sat for a while and been removed...
When did I stop being me?
To be sure, I'm not perfect wife material: I'm neurotic. I'm compulsive. I speak before I think and can't cook worth a damn. I'm messy and germaphobic all at once, and it's not entirely unheard of for...
Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?
It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this is home.
He only had the imperfect medium of words.
When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.
I did not take enough care with my hair, but a permanent wave would fix that. I was not thin enough, but for that, alas, there was no quick fix. I should never put more than the equivalent of three pe...
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