Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.

Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of life, made it impossible for them to learn a language w...

The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first place seemed to call into question one's own ability to turn lead into gold. (Enoch in...

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that...

In the case of the Younger Dryas, the jeopardy that humanity faced was not from nuclear missiles but from the incoming fragments of a disintegrating giant comet, traveling at tens of kilometers per se...

Holy [Insert your choice of a swear word here], said Fang stunned.

Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone. A few people look up politely; some actually smile. Most, however, look wary at best, disgusted at worse. The nurse closest...

EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED - THEY FOUND THE BODY

As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time.

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?

Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body...

Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted knights of old were desperate cowards by comparison. A fight in the open...

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.

People suicide because of the board rules, they don't like it. So people suicide, they don't see any other out of this place!

There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our em...

A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements.

Never look down unless you're helping them up.

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.