A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

Your coldness has ruined my life. All right, you didn't mean it, all right I was a schoolgirl, but you could have been kinder to someone who said they loved you, you could have been gentle and gratefu...

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

When the telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's , I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase...

The storm is not yours, Gregori stated. Jacques has grown far more powerful than I realized. There is a darkness in him unlike any I have ever observed. He is not vampire, but he is truly dangerous. L...

The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to gi...

Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost hav...

One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of any mind- altering or mood-altering medications that o...

Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht...

It wasn’t sexy, he said.It was a little sexy, Simon said. He felt much better, having fed, and couldn’t help but poke at Alec a bit.It wasn’t, said Alec.I had some feelings, said Simon.Do feel free to...

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

I can't tell you—oh I can't tell you—how awful—how sort of unlivable—everything is now—like a great black wall in front of me—Something's got to smash.

He hung up and glanced at me. I'm sorry, I have to take care of business. It can't wait, but I'll keep it short.Not a problem. I'll busy myself with being seen and tossing my hair. Would you like me t...

Collective abdication—the transfer of authority to a leader who threatens democracy—usually flows from one of two sources. The first is the misguided belief that an authoritarian can be controlled or...

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.

Autumn brings the falling of leaves and cool days.