Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

You will not pass! Roman thundered.Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.

Yeah. I guess we were both willing to do that, Gavin. I was ready to take that plunge and never look back. Never. I was ready to risk everything for you, to push away the overwhelming fear I had becau...

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Well … Zeus approves, Aeolus muttered. He says … he says it would be better if you could avoid saving her until after the weekend, because he has a big party planned—Ow! That‘s Aphrodite yelling at hi...

To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the tidal strait between Manhattan Island and her favorite suburb offers the specious ill...

There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.

There are few poets today who can equal, in their esthetic exploitation of language, in their depth of commitment to their medium, in their range of conceptual understanding, in the purity of their cl...

The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.

The lawyer was a short, ugly, little man. He stood about three feet taller than his desk’s two foot eight inch frame and he had dark eyes. Lois couldn’t tell if they were black or an extremely dark br...

The largest one laughed. Until Natalya's glass shard plugged his jugular. Regin aimed and pulled the trigger. The gun kicked as bullets sprayed. It was shredding their torsos like cheese, halving thei...

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.

Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.

Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by whi...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by...

Okay, I said. I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house. Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric...

New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.

My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.

My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.

Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.