I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Hiding here, are you? That’s awkward. Why? Because I had intended to hide here myself. You may hide here with me, if you wish.

He didn’t want to do this…He had come here to hide.

He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.

He appeared to have pushed down the coverlet and undone the first few buttons of his banyan. Sweat had pooled below his throat, just at the junction of his collarbones, and she could see a few black h...

Finally, I laugh. Genuine and normal sounding. And then my date says the best thing that he couldpossibly say: It’s okay. I haven’t been on one of these [dates] in a while either.My smile triples in s...

Don't worry, he's coming with me to investigate things.In the city? Jim asked.Yes.That's a great idea. You both should go. To the city.Curran and I looked at each other.He's trying to get rid of us, I...

Butler snapped his fingers. Focus, Artemis! Time enough for your Atlantis Complex later. We have the Atlantis outside that door and six miles of water above it. If you want to stay alive, you need to...

But it is a pipe.No, it's not, I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally shortsighted age thinks only in terms of large num...

Is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that thrives in feedlot cattle, 40 percent of which carry it in their gut. Ingesting as few as ten of thes...

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.

My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.

The hero's achievement, in short, is to affirm life.