Vegas tends to affect me that way, some combination of tension and dread to which my body responds with all the symptoms of incipient flu.
There's nothinng like an outsider's idle glance to make you conscious of your own environment.
There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.
My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament.
Just what it said. I left a message telling him I had a garage full of stuff I needed to get rid of. I knew he’d be in the neighborhood the twenty-fourth, so all I had to do was give him my address. I...
I’m chronically unemployed. Never had a job my whole life. None of my family did. I take that back. Once my daddy was hired on a construction crew for two weeks and two days. He said it was way more w...
It wasn’t about finding the right answer; it was about patience and diligence. I surrendered to the process, ascribing the same importance to this work as to anything else I did.
I'm not saying justice is for sale, but if you have enough money, you can sometimes enjoy the benefits of a short-term lease.
I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.
He blinked at me lazily and I blinked back at half speed, an exchange I later learned was called a cat kiss.
Haven’t you ever heard of compromise? Oh sure, I said. That’s when you give away half the things you want. That’s when you give the other guy half of what’s rightfully yours. I’ve done that lots of ti...
As it is, we could not call mine a beautiful puss, but it does the job well enough, distinguishing the front of my head from the back.
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
We understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.
A book has no unwanted calories and you don’t have to worry about sizes as long as the subject matter appeals to the recipient.
Why not? You’ve already interrupted my work. Sorry about that, but here’s the deal. I want to talk to the players in the case, but I have no cover story and no bargaining power. I can hardly pass myse...
Why is it that other people’s plans so often seem ill thought out while our own make so much sense? I
When it comes to work, it isn’t so much what we do or how much we’re paid; it’s the satisfaction we take in doing it.
We are here this afternoon to mourn the passing of two good friends, Terrence Dace and Felix Beider. They were homeless. Their ways were not those we most desire for ourselves, but that didn’t make th...
Verbal clashes seldom come to a satisfying end. They peter out in weak retorts that leave you wishing you’d been as clever in the moment as you are in reviewing the conversation later.