Tell me, son... have you ever been intimidated by anyone?''Oh yes,' said Thomas. 'I don't believe it. By whom?''By Our Lord... on the altar.

Even in your pains, troubles or difficulties, create unforgettable memories by putting a smile on the faces of others'.

When you shut out the universe around you. You inadvertently become the very universe that you were trying to shut out.

Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite

And Flock Rule Number Two is, Don't argue with Max or you'll live to regret it." I spun and stomped out to the clearing, turning back for one last jab at Dylan. "And by the way, you clearly DON'T know...

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

What are you doing? Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flashcub...

We're dealing here, said Vimes, With a twisted mind.Oh, no! You think so?Yes.But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time.Not Nobby, said Vimes testily. Whatever he might do...

The rivalry ends here, Percy said. I love you, Wise Girl.

The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called worthwhile goals. Money, fame, powe...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no excepti...

In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.(Im Kampf zwischen Dir und der Welt, sekundiere der Welt)

I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep...

I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the...

From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear.If you're freed from the dear You'll have no grief, let alone fear.

During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear friend David Rieff. On one occasion, we made a special detour to the...

And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.

Aedion snorted. Hurry up with the eggs. I'm going to die of starvation.Make the bacon, or you don't get any.Aedion could hardly move fast enough.

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about that, even as she thwarts her own insight by insisting that it i...