I sprinted into the conference room as my boss, and the owner of this law firm, Cherie Poitras, grabbed her client around the waist, a woman dressed to the nines in high heels and a cream suit. The woman had actually crawled up on the conference tabl...
On my fifth trip to France I limited myself to the words and phrases that people actually use. From the dog owners I learned "Lie down," "Shut up," and "Who shit on this carpet?" The couple across the road taught me to ask questions correctly, and th...
Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to consider things I’d rather not think about – the sex of my guitar, for instance. If I honestly wanted to put my hands on a woman, would that automatically mean I could...
But this was suddenly interrupted, William Bankes remembered (and this must refer to some actual incident), by a hen, straddling her wings out in protection of a covey of little chicks, upon which Ramsay, stopping, pointed his stick and said "Pretty�...
She looked like she believed in something, or wanted to, and I hoped to hell it wasn’t God, not in the way The Dad believes, because all that does is make him forced and desperate. No, it was something else, not just that I saw a pretty girl and ju...
[Ava] had always thought the main relationship in the family was the one between Nancy and her daughters. To have a family, you needed a father, of course, and Jimmy had played that role perfectly well, if you were okay with an old-fashioned interpre...
When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans ...
Jodi: Heard they got you pretty bad. Mitch: Yeah. Jodi: They just got Hersh too Mitch: Was it bad? Sabrina Davis: Yeah. Mitch: Was it O'Bannion? Sabrina Davis: I think so Mitch: Man I hate that jerk! Sabrina Davis: Hey I didn't know Jodi was you're b...
I don't like being alone.
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
Isn't that what love is? Being scared, then being brave, because of that one person?
The strongest drug for a human being is another human being!
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.
All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.
Being afraid, being uncertain you’ll succeed, but going ahead anyway— that’s what makes a hero, Berhanu.
There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
