One of the many signs of verbal virtuosity among intellectuals is the repackaging of words to mean things that are not only different from, but sometimes the direct opposite of, their original meaning...

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in...

J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know wh...

I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed. (My li...

I will leave the making of law to you, brother, Prince Baelon declared, I would sooner make sons.

I want to know what your five-dollar wish was for.Is that all? He smiled beneath her exploring fingertips. I wished you would find someone who wanted you as much as I did. But I knew it wouldn’t come...

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth. Nancy Reagan on her husband

He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire of his...

Far over the misty mountains cold. To dungeons deep, and caverns old

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Asif Ali maneuvers the gleaming Mercedes down the labyrinthine lanes of Old Kolkata with consummate skill, but his passengers do not notice how smoothly he avoids potholes, cows and beggars, how skilf...

Apollo stepped toward Athena. Let’s break down this idea step-by-step. How would we be able to use Perses? The last time I checked, he was in Tartarus. He is still there. Athena tipped her chin up. An...

According to old frineds who grew up with Stanley Ann Dunham, she became a serious student of Communist and Marxist theories back in high school. One profile even named a few of her radical teachers a...

A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A...

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.

There are no perfect people - except of course my wife's first husband.

It is better to have ten skeletons in your closet, than walk with no bones.