The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible to refute since the person who could condemn them has b...
So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our...
People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.
I am still able to recite long portions of Alfred Noyes’s The Highwayman at the slightest provocation.
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
What you’re so worried
Really, the boys reminded me of puppies playing tug-of-war with an old sock. The
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
Kim Bass, Receptionist, was nowhere to be seen. This was fortunate, as I was so irritated with the way she’d treated me, I might have bitten her on the arm. I’d been a biter as a kid and I can still r...
I find it so liberating when other people are rude. It makes me feel mild and lazy and mean.
Traffic, but
Tragedy can turn your life around if you’re open to it.
Smile. It gives your face something to do.
Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our...
I like my life as it is.
I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
…I was startled out of my concentration by the sound of malicious hissing. Waddling toward me with remarkable speed were two huge white geese, their heads thrust forward, mouths open like snakes with...
Wrote him off the day he left and so did Ellen and
Thinks he either kept it in his desk drawer at work or in the glove compartment of his car. Odessa