It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with...

Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

International big business has made revolutions before now to safeguard its interests. At one time it made them … in the name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Now, with Socialism to fight, it make...

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.

If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the org...

I've got the Mark of Cain, said Simon. That means nothing can kill me, right?You can kill yourself, Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So...

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

I beg your pardon? Catherine interrupted. Are you implying that women have poor judgment?In these matters, yes. Leo gestured to Christopher. Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek...

For the first time Gersen saw indigenous fauna of Moudervelt: a band of lizard-foxes, with gray-green pangolin scales and a single optic orb. They reared high to watch Gersen pass by; when he slowed t...

But a certain dullness of mind seems an almost necessary qualification, if not for every public man, at least for every one seriously engaged in making money.

Brave' covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people's lives - generals tend to go in for that sort - to drunkenness, foolhardiness, and outright idiocy - to the sort o...

7 Up soda pop mixed with bright pink grenadine with a chemical-tasting maraschino cherry stuck to the plastic straw. It was one of those drinks marketed for children, but Mandy could see that she wasn...

Probably derived from the old French : a troop of the devil’s horsemen.

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.

I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like being the fastest midget in the circus.

Cast your cares on God that anchor holds.

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

I can pull off anything; I have the height and the attitude. The only thing I can't wear is a leotard, but I can wear anything else.

My Everest is not your Everest. Your Everest is not mine. We all have an Everest. Each of us. Sometimes the peak is literally Mount Everest but most times it lies deep within us, figuratively occupyin...