Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. -- Guy de Maupassant So I'll light another cigarette and try to remember to forget. -- Lowell George Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I...

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow? And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the overprudent dog...

'But I'm not going,' said Barnaby Jack. 'I'm running away tonight for good. And this time I won't get caught.' Annabelle whispered, ‘I'm coming with you.' Her yellow hair, now brown at the roots, caught up in the wind and danced. Barnaby Jack took Annabelle's hand and...

1954: Eisenhower is in the White House, the McCarthy hearings begin, an IBM computer translates sixty phrases from Russian into English, a de Havilland Comet succumbs to metal fatigue and disintegrates in mid-flight, Bill Haley and the Comets record 'Rock Around the...

The squatting tenant men nodded and wondered and drew figures in the dust, and yes, they knew, God knows. If the dust only wouldn't fly. If the top would only stay on the soil, it might not be so bad. -- from Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 'Little Bit of Rain,' by...

On the very day of their departure Regine in all haste leaves her apartment in Nybrogade and ventures out into town in the hope of meeting her old love. And, as though the final gesture of a generous Providence toward these two persons whose life histories are so...