I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up