The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let...
Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.
It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.
But some relationships aren't meant to last.They are worthy only till the time the two persons involved have time for each other.They do not know eternity. They live for the present, the "now". And wh...
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]
We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch up...
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
You're Dionysus, I said. The god of wine.Mr. D rolled his eyes. What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say 'Well duh!'?Y-yes, Mr. D.Then, well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Ap...
You okay?Fine.Your heart's beating really fast.Gee, thanks. That's very comforting that you can hear it.He smiled, and it was the old Michael, the one she'd first met before all the vamp stuff.Yeah, I...
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...
When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone be...
Well, friend, I don’t know about your tastes, but I tend to like it very bloody, Myrnin said. He shifted position, dragging Claire along like a rag doll without any effort at all. Have we been introdu...
We should go back inside, she said, in a half whisper. She did not want to go back inside. She wanted to stay here, with Will achingly close, almost leaning into her. She could feel the heat that radi...
This is so cool! Nico said, jumping up and down in the driver's seat. Is this really the sun? I thought Helios and Selene were the sun and moon gods. How come sometimes it's them and sometimes it's yo...
The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they?
The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system racked by disease: studies of human suffering anat...
The clouds I can handle, but I can't fight with an eclipse.
She murmured, You're unfinished.Aye, precisely.I need to go.When she moved to get up, he shoved her against his side and slapped her arse to keep her there. You stay with me.She snapped, What do you w...
Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.