The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...
Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.
Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and...
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.
How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.
Home is where they want you to stay longer
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is right and what is best should be given no rest; that they should h...
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?
At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we...
The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum them and you make a pleasing sound. A harmonic.
Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take
When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...
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