I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

Television is a passivity.

Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.

In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.