Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...

The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,

In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...