Ecstasy hates company..

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising lik….

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end..

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart..

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise..

These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the….

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely..

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist..

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand..

There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes ….

Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" i….

When does loyalty become martyrdom?.

It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass..

It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-nat….

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid..

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry..

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Ev….

We'll do what life always does defy expectations..

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover..

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves..

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see..