Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.
Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.