Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?
When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.
The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.
Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.
Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.
Expect nothing and life will be velvet.
In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.
We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.
You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.