Let me tell you a little story. You may have heard it before.It's a story about a butcher named Barry.Once upon a time, in central city, there was a butcher named Barry. Barry loved to chop up meat mo...

Kaltain, her uncle rumbled, a demand and a threat and a promise. The silent young woman—the one who never spoke, who never looked at anything, who had such marks on her. Elide had seen her only a few...

It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.

In school I ended up writing three different papers on The Castaway section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he finds...

If you love her, that's all that matters.

I stop reading after half an hour. I’ve had enough. Humanity has hit a brick wall. We’re facing our end, like the dinosaurs millions of years before us. The only difference is we’ve got journalists on...

I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spok...

I have seen a land shining with goodness, where each man protects his brother's dignity as readily as his own, where war and want have ceased and all races live under the same law of love and honour.I...

How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?

He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.

He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser...

Gary was looking from one to the other in alarm. What is it? Remain calm. Savannah is very sensitive to evil. She can feel it, and I can touch it through her, but I cannot detect it within the room my...

Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They h...

All Julie has to do is explain to her friends that she's using it to individually seal each item that she throws out.Then they'd think she was a geek, I said.She will thank me later, Monk said.Why wou...

She shook her head. You keep getting mixed up. I’m supposed to be protecting you. I’m your doctor. She lifted her head, green eyes searching his face. You’ve never lived with a woman? You must have ha...

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving...

A cheerful look makes a dish a feast