Quotes About Colson

I brought out the dark side of Nixon," Colson recalled, though "you didn't need to work very hard to bring it out—it was always close to the surface." The president was "a gut fighter….His first reaction was to fight back…to get even.

Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

Sometimes such an experience bound one person to another; just as often the shame of one's powerlessness made all witnesses into enemies.

Alma used the word settled the way less genteel people used motherfucker, as a chisel to pry open a particular feeling.

The championship would be their sole acquaintance with justice at Nickel.

A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universities.

Roger Tipple did not have a weak chin so much as a very aggressive neck.

Rumors have flourished in worse soil than this.

Blake's face distorted in surprise and worry, that of a man stumbling into a kingdom of hornets.

Who knew what brand of mutiny his captives might cook up if they shared a common tongue.

brought down the roof of the doghouse, and a squeal from the dog, who had just had his tail

the buttons of his dark blue uniform allude to an ongoing border dispute with his soft belly.

Alma used the word settled the way the less genteel used motherfucker, as a chisel to pry open a particular feeling.

I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom.

Do we judge a man by the weight of the envelope-or whom he gives it to?

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my one or two readers who follow me from book to book!

watch a videocassette lecture series by Dr. R. C. Sproul on the holiness of God. All I knew about Sproul was that he

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?