So if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.

Simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession.

In order that the lower edge of each stone should hitch like a pawl into a ratchet cut into the top of the walls; hence no stone can press on the one below it, so as to cause a cumulative pressure all...

By now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am...

[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that t...

[Piper] rushed to get dressed. By the time she got up on deck, the others had already gathered—all hastily dressed except for Coach Hedge, who had pulled the night watch. Frank’s Vancouver Winter Olym...

You’ve located intrinsic worth in the wrong place, she said to all of them, over the common band. It’s like a rainbow. Without an observer at a twenty-three-degree angle to the light reflecting off a...

Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?''A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.

Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably...

You'll find that historical research is extremely soothing. When you spend all day among old papers, the people come alive for you, and you begin to see the present through different eyes. You'll see....

You swore to stay with me, he said. When we made our oath, as parabatai. Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.We are two people, said Jem. Two people with a covenant between us.Will knew he so...

You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether it...

You remind me of the babe.What babe?The babe with the power.What power?The power of voodoo.Who do?You do.

You remind me of a man.What?A man with the power?

You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you...

You mean a bad heel? I said. Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense. -Percy

You look tired, Rachel told Jason.I wish I could jog and sleep at the same time.Can't you? Ferrin asked, joining them at the little cascade. I always imagined that you could sleep rolling down a mount...

You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for lif...

You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake.

You are a member of the first generation of doctors in the history of medicine to turn their backs on the oath of Hippocrates and kill millions of old useless people, unborn children, born malformed c...