I'm lying in my room listening to the birds outside. I used to think they sang because they were happy. But then I learned on a nature show they're really showing off. Trying to lure in some other bird so they can mate with it. Or let the other birds...
I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheels. For a long time, we were parked a few yards beyo...
In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on a par w...
Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because...
Angela could not be the bomber, not that sweet, pretty thing. Thing? Is that how she regarded that young woman, as a thing? And what had she ever said to her except "I hear you're getting married, Angela" or "How pretty you look, Angela." Had anyone ...
My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. 'I think it was very nice of Paul to give me this vase,' she once said,...
Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest countr...
I have such a little face.
It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.
Sex pretty much cures everything.
Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja.
You look too pretty to be useful.
Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.
Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.
I think what makes someone pretty amazing is being comfortable in your own skin.
Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.
I've had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.
Love, I'm pretty sure, is light.
Ellie, would you frolic in the land of forever with me?
Would you frolic in the land of forever with me?
Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
