It’s a much different world now from when I started out. I don’t envy the ones who came after me. In my day, hitchhiking wasn’t how everyone thinks of it now — nobody thought it …

I used to live in New York City
Everything there was dark and dirty
Outside my window was a steeple
With a clock that always said twelve-thirty
— The Mamas and the Papas, “Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To …

Sarah: Okay, here’s my problem.
Wing Chun: Hit me.
Sarah: Well, actually I have a whole bunch of problems, but they’re all kind of under the umbrella of one very large problem.
Wing Chun: I see.
Sarah: Which is …

You stand behind a bar for forty years, you see a lot of lonely. You see a lot of stupid and bored, too, but that ain’t the same thing — ain’t no story behind those. …

It’s the twenty-second of the December. I’ve finished my Christmas shopping, I’ve rented a car to ferry me and my brother and several dozen unwieldy packages out to New Jersey for the holiday, and I’ve …

“Life.” That word. You still use it all the time, “get a life,” “I’ve never seen anything like it in my life,” it’s still a part of your…your existence. And your existence…feels…like life. You still …

When the living come for a visit, they don’t always talk. A lot of times, they stand there, at attention, and they stare at the headstone because they don’t know what else to look at, …

You like Thanksgiving done the same way your family did it as a kid — exactly the same way. You want dinner served at the exact same time you had it as a kid, with …

Prager: I thought surely I’d bear a mark.
Patterson: As big as a plate, that hole.
Prager: As big as a plate. The boy just kept shooting.
Patterson: We’d frightened him.
Prager: I suppose. Flushed him out.
Patterson: Took half …

It’s weird — lately I can’t stop thinking about Brianna Babitch. You know how certain things, when you’re a little kid, they’re like your whole world for a little while, and then by the time …