I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.
Manscaping and all of that is not my thing. I'm more of the Clint Eastwood kind of guy.
A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.
Admittedly I agreed with Rupert Murdoch that 'Page 3' is 'old fashioned' and the removal based on that is plausible, but surely 'Page 3' is an institution?
I've met some of the most interesting, dimensional, and kind people of my life in that subculture and around the sport. And it seems to me that boxing is one of those structures that is designed to...
I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!
People are so forthcoming with their opinions in America, and it's not the same in Canada. People are more reserved... They hold their cards closer, and they're very, very polite.
May the best of the past be the worst of the future. Keep everything always off balance. No boundaries. No repetition. The opposite of what the Rebbe wants. The Rebbe seeks fixed boundaries, perfect...
There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.
Ah, not to be afraid is that you go to anger.
Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no? Absence, I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. And fonder. If anything's...
For while it was the memory of his past rage and humiliation that had kept him awake to begin with, it was the other side of the present situation that had left him still wakeful at dawn. The slowly...
Would he have the courage to face the dreadful Highland charge? He couldn't bring himself to mention his fears even to Hector. Hector loved him, but Hector was twenty, tall and muscular and fearless,...
An unfortunate affair of the heart! He smiled grimly, dipping his pen. Perhaps Hal had a greater sensitivity than he'd thought, in so describing it. But then, all his affairs had been unfortunate,...
I'll try verra hard, John." The Governor sat down, wearily. There were deep circles under his eyes, and his impeccable linen was wilted; obviously he had not changed his clothes from the day before....
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.
At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.
Solitude is a temple for me.
We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.
It is with imaginary writers that I learn what I want to do. For example, Stephen Dedalus or Nick Adams. I read their lives as a way to understand what it is about. I have no interest in inspiring...
The conclusion of Dowell's narrative offers not a resolution, so much as a plangent confirmation of complexities. While Ford would certainly have agreed with Dowell that it is a novelist's business to...
It's not so long ago that men of your ilk believed in witches and superstition," I pointed out. "Medieval times," he said, waving a hand in the air to dismiss the notion. "This is 1867. The Church has...
...-the sunny times of footsore joy on Arctic islands, for instance, when I reached ice and could glide almost effortlessly through coolness more dazzling than music.
It is a fool who repeats the same actions expecting a different outcome.
I'm talking to Maya," he said, his voice so low it was almost a growl....
Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City during the 1930s, used to say, I don't fail often. But when I do, it's a beaut!
I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden.
Getting old is like standing in a long, slow line. You wake up out of the shuffle and torpor only at those moments when the line moves you one step closer to the window.
Good luck, Jamie," he said, voice a little husky. "God go with you.
he looked over the jars. There was another customer in the shop, hovering near the counter, where tonics were dispensed and compounds
Man is born to sorrow and whiskers. One of the plagues of Adam.
I lifted the pistol a little
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
