"“You must think us fools,” he said, leading me back into the gathering, “to waste ourselves in commemorating an era w…"

"I glanced at him. He was wearing a pair of mirrored sunglasses, and that consolidated my anger. Why is it, I ask you,…"

"In mine, while there was also agony, it was essentially a love affair with revolution, with the idea of revolution. A…"

"“These movies, they make war seem like a mystical opportunity. Well, man, when I was here it wasn’t quite that way, y…"

"And that in itself was a sufficient reason to hit him, purely for educational purposes: I had, you see, reached the l…"

"“You had no right,” I said. “You—” Tuu’s face hardened. “We had no right to mislead you? Please, Mr. Puleo. Between o…"

"Here was a beast for whom there could be no predator. What better definition of God is there than that?"

"She’s sad because she’s drinking to be sad because she’s afraid that what she does not feel is actually a feeling. Ty…"

"Travel has always served to inspire me, as it has many writers, as it apparently did my alter ego; yet the farther we…"

"The Southern education stuffs you full of incontrovertible proof that the Rebel defeat was a wild and improbable stro…"