A man who can’t stay a bit shouldn’t approach in the first place. Good advice, I think, and not just for priests.
Roll me in sugar and call me a fuckin jelly-doughnut!
In this book,” he said, “Mr. Simak postulates the idea that there are a number of worlds like ours. Not other planets but other Earths, parallel Earths, in a kind of ring around the sun.
I am large, I contain multitudes’?
Or maybe it wasn’t a man at all.
It could be a work of fiction, or history, or both – a long book exploding out of this central place in a hundred directions.
There’s also a force for good in the world.
Mr. Harrigan also promised this, but I suppose men who understand business also understand that promises are easy to discard, being as how giving them is free.
Healing is a kind of revolt... all successful revolts begin in secret.
Even if things go all wrong they’ll work out just fine.
The best-educated doctor in the world is standing on a low island in the middle of a sea of ignorance.
His father’s study smelled of cigarettes and ambition.
Read and write four to six hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can’t expect to become a good writer.
At quarter past eleven on that momentous night, the storm breathed its last gasp.
His relationship with his father had been like the unfurling of some flower of beautiful potential, which, when wholly opened, turned out to be blighted inside.
We have come to a stream of blood. That it will lead us to a river of the same stuff I have no doubt. And, further along, to an ocean. In this world the graves yawn and none of the dead rest easy.
Castle Rock Middle School was a frowning pile of red brick standing between the Post Office and the Library, a holdover from the time when the town elders didn’t feel entirely comfortable with a school unless it looked like a reformatory.
I can’t understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there’s already so much pain in the world,” Mrs. Shoplaw said. “Religion is supposed to comfort.
When nurses drink, they have a tendency to go all in. They’re like cops that way.
Come from the shadow of yourself, if you dare.