That kiss was a revelation- Patience had never imagined a simple kiss could be so bold, so heavily invested with meaning. His lips were hard; they moved over hers, parting them further, confidently ma...

Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an atom. That's the logic of it. The poetry of it is that the equation tells me how s...

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.

It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.

Is there anything I can do?He gave her a tired grin. Crawl in bed with me.She glared at him, then got up and tossed him a terry-cloth robe she found hanging on the back of the bathroom door. Meet me i...

In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly tho...

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world...

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

His fantasies were nurturing, not predatory. If he could have Jess, he would feed her. Laughable, antique, confusingly paternal, he longed to nourish her with clementines, and pears in season, fresh w...

He could totally be your boyfriend, [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.I'm only a kid! I shrieke...

Hagrid, look what I’ve got for relatives! Harry said furiously. Look at the Dursleys!An excellent point, said Professor Dumbledore. My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropria...

And again and again fell the word, like the ebb of a dying sea.Good-bye.

. A silent, putrid committed by someone in this very room, and only one person knows whodunnit.

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always choose to learn from others.

Is then no nook of English ground secureFrom rash assault?

The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.