Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

You're just pissed off. And when you're pissed off, you lash out.

You will not pass! Roman thundered.Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.

Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I would find meaningful. I paid little attention at first and unfortunately I don’t recall just who gav...

Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures of cherry blossoms and snow and maple leaves, the calling of a cricket, the beauty of th...

Whether you are at play in the fields of the Lord or standing next to home plate squinting at the popping pitcher, that sudden, immediate knowing can also help you envision the outcome.

Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister resp...

Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you...... What is it? [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible.Yeah, agre...

People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,with dim, small lights.Clouds which move across gray skiespast churcheswith towers darkened in the dusk.One who leans against granite railing

One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it sat there looking kind of stupid. So I took a handful of sal...

More people continue to be and do exactly the things in life that prevent them from getting what they want or from waking up excited about their day.

Mikhail pushed a hand through his thick mane of hair. Our people cannot do without you, Gregori, and quite simply, neither can I. You are so certain that I will not turn? Gregori’s smile was self-mock...

It is always winter now.

In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart. Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?No one had an answer for him, ei...

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

I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

I nodded. Where’s your hunter? She flinched. He went home. We thought it would be best. Her eyes went from worried to warning. He’s under Drake protection. So am I, or so I’ve been led to understand.O...

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

I believe the intensity of the pity you feel for an animal has to do with how it evokes pity for yourself.... Innocence is something we humans pass through and leave behind, unable to return. But anim...