After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.
I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn't put my finger on. But it always came back.
You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.
Life is the most spectacular show on earth.
...poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew.