You can’t please all of the readers all of the time; you can’t please even some of the readers all of the time, but you really ought to try to please at least some of the readers some of the time. I think William Shakespeare said that.
At moments like this he suspected that Hitler had been nothing but a harried bureaucrat and Satan himself a mental defective with a rudimentary sense of humor – the kind that finds feeding firecrackers wrapped in bread to seagulls unutterably funny.
Heaven was a dim attraction compared to that of fighting – and perhaps perishing – in the service of the Lord.
The thoughts of DIVORCE hung over the kitchen table like a cloud full of black rain, pregnant, ready to burst.
None of this was real, after all. It was just a refuge in her mind.
When there’s no more room in hell, this artifact said, the dead will walk the earth.
Sometimes he makes us live.
Homesickness is a real sickness – the ache of the uprooted plant.
That tight little accent grated on Clay’s frayed nerves. He thought that if it had been a fart, it would have been the kind that comes out sounding like a party-horn blown by a kid with asthma.
I felt comfortable as only one can on such a night, when all is miserable outside and all is warmth and comfort inside;.
In his heart, hope – that indestructible weed of the human heart – had begun to bloom again.
There is a certain mentality that believes in covering up. They believe in it with the sincerity and fanaticism that members of some religious groups believe in the divinity of Jesus. Because, for some people, the necessity to continue covering up even after the damage is done is all-important.
The scent of THE MAN – the feel of THE MAN – had led to this place and then stopped. Where had he gone?
Five hundred smacks? On the Yankees? When the Braves’ve got Spahn and Burdette? Not to mention Hank Aaron and Steady Eddie Mathews?
That was a thing of which he as yet had no knowing.
Get married to some nagging broad and always own last year’s model, vote Democrat –.
America was staggeringly unobservant even twelve years into the Dark Age of Terrorism. If you see something, say something was a hell of a slogan, but first you had to see something.
The only two useful art forms are religion and stories.
Deja que el amor te instruya, no intentes instruir al amor.
Dios nos reclama cuando le parece que ya es hora y un escritor es como Dios con los personajes de un relato, los crea como Dios a nosotros y nadie puede pedirle cuentas.