When Victoria told me how intensely she hated me, I kept the Beretta aimed at her face, but heard myself say, “I don’t hate you.”She called me an effing liar and said, “Hate makes the...

There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I’ve been through, by now I should have lost one...

My instinct is a winning coach, and when it said “Batter up,”I didn’t argue that I wasn’t ready for the game. I gripped the bat in both hands, assumed the stance, and said a prayer...

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Change isn’t easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That’s hard.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it?Or we yearn for yesterday,...

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.

The past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is. To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because grief thrives in the...

Chyna Shepherd, untouched and alive and able to pee.

You can’t fix things with a hug, but you can’t make them any worse either.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

There will be something very wrong with any place we go.

Well, Mr Thomas, while I’m in favour of education, I couldn’t in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer...