But I learned at my expense that Father believed there was another animal even more dangerous than us, and one that was extremely common, too, found on every continent, in every habitat: the redoubtab...
Both scary and down-to-earth, he [John Belushi] once told me, 'I never yell at the staff, only the department heads'.
Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?Bob's eyes darted nervously. I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.
Basic misunderstandings about DID encountered in the therapeutic community include the following:° The expectation that all clients with DID will present in a Sybil-like manner, with obvious switching...
As you say of yourself, I too am an . I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.[]
As usual, Junko thought about Jack London's 'To Build a Fire.' It was the story of a man traveling alone through the snowy Alaskan interior and his attempts to light a fire. He would freeze to death u...
Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.
Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember?No. I was unconscious.
Another extraordinary similarity concerns the presence of Seven Sages in both the Sumerian and Vedic traditions. Most ancient societies, I concede, had their sages or seers or wise men -- in India the...
And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas...
And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not settle for less than a love story for the ages found the lifelong ro...
All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.
Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.
Aaron lifted me up onto his hips and I knew we weren’t staying. We just got here, I murmured against his cheek. Don’t you think Judd and Coop will take their women home to celebrate? Glancing around,...
A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally shortsighted age thinks only in terms of large num...
My full name's Ed Kennedy. I'm nineteen. I'm an underage cab driver. I'm typical of many of the young men you see in this suburban outpost of the city- not a whole lot of prospects or possibility. Tha...
'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think; drips off one's teeth like sugar-syrup.'
On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward slantingI awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for.Tipsy and a bit unshaven, in a tone I found quite craven,Poe was talking to a Ra...
J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.
Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraeulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'
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