When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which,...

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.

You look wonderful, Jason said.No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie.Then by all means take it off.

Why?’ She nods. ‘She had everything: a family who loved her, friends, activities. Her mother wants to know why she threw it all away?’ Why you want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yours...

Why are we bringing him along, again? Will inquired, of the world in general as well as his sister.Cecily put her hands on her hips. Why are you bringing Tessa?Because Tessa and I are going to be marr...

Todo aquel que lucha, de todo se abstiene; ellos, a la verdad, para recibir una corona corruptible, pero nosotros, una incorruptible. 1 CORINTIOS 9.25 Los atletas en la época de Pablo se esforzaban pa...

The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.

The values and assumptions of that household I took in without knowing when or how it happened, and I have them to this day: The pleasure in sharing pleasure. The belief that is is only proper to help...

She shrieks above the din. If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

She felt his hands move to the fastening of his breeches, and then he swore under his breath as he was forced to roll off her in order to (in his words), get the bloody things off. She couldn't help b...

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

No one recorded what those marches were, though decades later there was an apocryphal and later-debunked story the one of the songs the British played was the on-the-nose The World Turned Upside Down.

Laughing, Bailey still put on a little frown. I want a man to cuddle. Tucker stopped kissing Maddy long enough to look at Bailey. Everyone needs love. Even the dipshit. I’ll find someone for you. Tuck...

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empowe...

If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.

If I look closely, I can almost see myself floating in my mother's palm. Yet, when I shut my eyes, I find a different image of my mother releasing me as we dance in the storm and twirl in separate cir...