That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." He smiled, said, "That was my favorite book at sixteen." At the time , I thought he was patronizing m...
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant,...
They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.