She had only the slimmest notion of what he meant, but his voice made her so horny she could barely keep from squirming, crossing her legs, or hopping about, like a little girl who had to go to the ba...
She did know that once tattooed one could no longer expect to lie for all eternity in an orthodox Jewish cemetery. They wouldn't even bury women with pierced ears. A strange theory of mutilation from...
Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.
Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions a...
Perhaps everything was connected to everything, in a discernible if nebulous way, and if one might only trace the fibers and filaments of those connections, one might... One might what? Observe the Gr...
Outlaws are not members of society. However, they may be important to society.
Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it’s a costly mistake to spread it too thin.
It was wonderful, Pris.What was, honey? The meeting? The champagne?The eclipse, said Ricki. It was probably the most real thing I've ever seen, but it was also like a dream. You know what I mean? Real...
It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death.Sure and show me the person's road that does not lead to death. we try to divert our attention, to pretend 'tisn't so, but the very...
Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized.
In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however...
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.
I was a medic in the Army. I really should have become a doctor. Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure igno...
Every fifteen minutes or so the harvest moon would bleed through the tourniquet of cloud cover that conspired to squeeze every droplet of pictorial sentiment out of the Skagit landscape in order that...
Dreamily the Princess stood up. I'm not sure if I can walk, she said.Then I'll carry you.Is that what love is?I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to ma...
Don't you see? The enemy represents Death to 'em. The government propaganda mills paint the enemy as an unfeelin', devourin' monster. So, when we go to war we go on a noble mission, a life-affirming m...
Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the mi...
Courage is where you find it. Bravery that comes from a bottle-- or from book or from a sermon-- lacks the full strength and purity of bravery that comes straight from the heart.
Carelessness is a weakness that isn't tolerated in this order, he says in a voice that the average housewife would have to take out of the freezer at two in the afternoon if she wanted it thawed in ti...
Can a woman who does not know the contents of her handbag know the contents of her heart?