The first man to discover Chinook salmon in the Columbia, caught 264 in a day and carried them across the river by walking on the ...backs of other fish. His greatest feat, however, was learning the Chinook jargon in 15 minutes from listening to salmon talk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He took control of me for forty-five minutes. This time I'll have control over him for the rest of his life. If he gets out fiftee...n years from now, I'll know. I'll check on him every three months through police computers. If he makes one mistake he's going down again. I'll make sure. I'm his worst enemy now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Navajo men and boys have an odd way of showing their friendship. When two young men meet at the trading post, a "Sing", or a dance... they greet each other, inquire about the health of their respective families, then stand silently some ten or fifteen minutes while one feels the other's arms, shoulders, and chest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behind the steering wheel The boy took out his own forehead.... His girlfriend's head was a green bag Of narcissus stems. "OK you win But meet me anyway at Cohen's Drug Store In 22 minutes."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and ...relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are all the bloody same ... you can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is... all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »