Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.