Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.
Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
Who gathers the withered rose?
Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world.
Stars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows.
Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows.
And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a troubling rumor beneath the spring night, sweetened by distance: a longing knowing no ease. (Oh God, oh God!) At last George Farr gave up trying to se...