Traffic, but
There are times when an old rule should be abandoned or a current rule should not be applied.
You never know which people will affect your life.
Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I’d never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was Pete Wolinsky, an unscrupulous private detect...
The only colors I could see were the vibrant primary hues of the pinball machine, where a cartoon spacewoman with big conical breasts straddled the earth in a formfitting blue space suit and thigh-hig...
The Universe keeps track of our sins and exacts devious and repugnant punishments, like dates with unknown men.
She was right about one thing: the harm in the world is done by those who feel disenfranchised and abused. Contented people (as a rule) don't kite checks, rob banks, or kill their fellow citizens.
My dear, acting out is not the point because then the game would end. If I gave up the hope of reprisal, I'd forfeit the anger, which is better than pain.
Memory is subject to a filtering process that we don’t always recognize and can’t always control. We remember what we can bear and we block what we cannot.
I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being stripped, the toxic-waste dumps, the merry plunder of mankind ad...
I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout.
I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way....
I don't know what is love about and I'm not sure I believe in it anyway.
He’d set an eight-quart pan on the stove and the water had just reached a rolling boil. On the bottom of the pan there was a crumpled section of foil. I watched
Being rule governed, I operate in a world filled with imaginary restraints.
I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
Should be relieved, but I’m pissed. The irony is that he’s probably still going to dominate my life.
Perfidy.
Him add a quarter cup of baking soda, after which he placed the silverware in the bubbling water with the foil.
You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You get more that way.