Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.