But when she was annoyed with me, she had a cold way of saying Apparently in answer to almost anything I said, making me feel stupid. Um, I can’t find the can opener. Apparently. There’s going to be a...
Bouncer, recognizing a well-wisher, got up, and thrust his cold, wet nose under her hand, assuming as he did so the soulful expression of a dog who takes but a benevolent interest in cats, livestock,...
Aye, it could', Ian added. 'It's many a time when I've walked alone on the misty moors of Scotland, the fog creeping in, the waves pounding against the shore, and then the lone, eerie call of a dead c...
A pottery outside Paris was turning out his picture on thick glazed crockery in a strident yellow and blue. This is what happens when you become a public figure; people eat their dinners off you.
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out...
Then they began saying, "Get hold of him. Put him in Mercury." Now as you know I have two sculptures by Brancusi and several pretty things and I did not want them to start getting rough, so I said, pa...
Every student should know that statues are meant for sitting. If we're to endure their terrible old faces leering at us, the least they can do is offer shade or a comfortable perch." Nigel Bristow to...
If i believe my truth is true and you believe your truth is true,what if my truth says yours is a lie.is it still true?
It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.
The torturer was wheeling around the room, shrieking, holding his impaled hand, which had a pen sticking out of it. The guard by the door was in paroxysms of laughter. Frey had crumpled the confession...
On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural.
Unlike Panic! At the Disco, I write sins AND tradgedies.
I Will Not Tease Rebecca GrimesI have to write one hundred times:"I will not tease Rebecca Grimes."Okay, that's one. I'm far from done.(This isn't gonna be much fun.) "I will not tease Rebecca Grimes....
With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate.
Mavis' bear sailed through the air in Cassie's room, falling onto the bed. 'What's he in aid of?' 'He's reconnaissance expert. He wouldn't hear of me enterin' potential hostile ground without testin'...
The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen.
It was entirely possible I would sexually assault him if I got too close.
In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge, been superceded.
Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
I am on the divorce detox diet. I only eat younger men