“Given our wings, our blinkers, it’s hard to look up, hard to get the full view, of the sky, of anything. But we can do it, a little at a...

“His speech over the open grave was interrupted only by occasional hysterical sobs from the old whores (no one perhaps showed more...

“I slept so long a time that the vendors serving afternoon lunch had already departed when I woke.” When I think of sleeping midday, I...

“For the voice of God, whatever it is, is not that stammering, inept tradition which the people hold.” The world seems to me to be full...

“I want you to sit down and give this a good listen. Just get a load of this cat and tell me he’s not an inspiration.” The first John...

“Later they’d both wonder when their brains first registered the presence of the other.” When I meet someone and realize we share a...

“There were eucalyptus trees on the side of the highway, trees that I had thought, in the dark of night, were black shadows of the...

“Her house was her house, just as his was his. Inside of which a person had to face his problems alone.” The thing about my house is that...

“The clientele were cliched lonely, older working men with cumulative, functional-but-chronic drinking habits. And occasionally the...

“The sepia portrait of all five sisters in Grandma’s parlor photo shows five wispy blondes…They were pale, translucent, and somebody had...