Patrick explained that your father is absent. What about your mother, dear?"
Mother? Oh, she's in a dusty motel in California right now, cooling herself with a cold Schlitz in her cleavage.

“I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of …”

“Better that he gets used to it,' he said.Used to what, the feeling of uncontrol…”

“We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that…”

“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”