The Reason You're Alive

You could see the light in her eyes back then. It was bright as goddamn June moonbeams shimmering off ocean waves still warm from the day’s sun.

Gas wasn’t free, but neither was love, and some part of me knew right there and then that I had fallen hard and irreversibly.

His biggest opponents in life were the foreign she-devil he chose to sleep with and the heart-attack-inducing civilian stress he created for himself.

start acting normal again and we could

I knew Hank had written off my opinions long ago, and so I saved my breath.
And then, finally, my pitiful trip to the rob-you-while-you-are-sick hospital was over, and Hank and I were driving back to his home.

And then, finally, my pitiful trip to the rob-you-while-you-are-sick hospital was over, and Hank and I were driving back to his home. I asked to stop at my own house, thinking I’d like to pick up some more weapons, but my request was denied.
“Thought we were going to lose you there,” Hank said as he drove his tree-saving plug-in car made by little rice-eating men in some godforsaken faraway land.

When you have watched your friends die in your arms, felt the flesh rot off your feet, and gone nose to nose with pure evil, going the extra mile with an investor—laughing at his dumb jokes, having that extra late-night drink when you’d much rather be home with your family, and sniping the in-house competition by inserting the right word at the right time into the boss’s ear—is like R&R in Hawaii compared to day-to-day wartime Vietnam. I used to just laugh

I used my old contacts in the city to help the blacks make some more coin, which is the best sort of reparations there is—the ability to make your own money with your own brain and your own efforts, fair and square. It has been my experience that a black will be much more appreciative than a white when it comes to help getting jobs, and that’s why I stopped helping most whites, who, truth be told, far too often act like assholes.

A lot of dumb morons think we should keep homosexuals away from our children, but that’s only because they have never seen the gays in action around kids.

Sometimes you just have to take what comes your way and do the absolute best you can with the opportunity.