Brian

“Doubt makes a man decent.”
― Harry Crews

“The women advised long walks. They told the wife to watch the sun rise and set, to look for solace in the natural world, though they admitted there was no comfort to be found in the world and they would all be fools to expect it.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“You will stand in line for snacks behind good clothes on bad bodies, behind the man who is so drunk he has lost his shoes, and so belligerent no one will help him find them.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.”
― Amy Hempel, In The Cemetery Where Al Jolsen is Buried