Put … the troll … down … and slowly back away.

Que la vida tiene ironías, se dice, cuando lo cierto es que es la más obtusa de todas las cosas conocidas, un día alguien debió decirle, Sigue adelante, siempre adelante, no te salgas de tu camino, y...

Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of th...

She would've sworn the cat- or kitten, for it sounded quite small- was right in front of her, but there was nothing there.She straightened and glanced at Val.His azure eyes were alight with amusement....

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

My body screams to stride over to her, wrap my arms around her waist, kiss her until she’s drunk on me and slowly remove every article of clothing on her body.

My friend asked me if it had been cathartic, to write my memoir. I looked down at the sculptures—it was cathartic for me to look at them, but I could imagine it might have been hell to make them (I wa...

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved,...

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made in...

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell m...

Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel

Life…is a wonder. It is a sky laden with clouds of contradictions.

Isaiah lazily yet deliberately tilts his head as he stares into my eyes. My entire body hums and a fuzzy sensation fills my head, making it hard to focus. My mouth opens then closes. And as he slowly...

It is He who makes the lightning flash upon you, inspiring you with fear and hope, and gathers up the heavy clouds. The thunder sounds His praises, and the angels, too, in awe of him. He hurls his thu...

It is always the savage lads, with their love of excitement, who head the riot - reckless to what bloodshed it may lead.

It is of no concern. I don't mind that I am not universally adored. If I wanted everyone to like me, I'd have to be kind and charming and bland and boring all the time, and what would be the fun in th...

It should be inserted here parenthetically that there's a school of mechanical thought which says I shouldn't getting into a complex assembly I don't know anything about. I should have training or le...

It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.