Investigations revealed that two Venezuelan nationals, Freddy Lugo and Hernán Ricardo Lozano, who had been employed by Luis Posada Carriles, planted the bombs that destroyed a Cuban airliner. The men...

If I wasn't dead already, I'd said I was having a heart attack.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure. Viaggiava su antichi velieri con Joseph Conrad. Andava in Africa con Ernest Hemi...

I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

I do love it when I am right,' Hyacinth said triumphantly. 'Which is fortunate, since I so often am.

I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really about animals.

I am a bad man, very bad, but in a different way. I want to ravish you until we’re both senseless with it, and then I want to do it all over again.

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.

How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produc...

How can you be a lover of love

Her first instinct was to look away, to shield her wicked thoughts and feelings from his penetrating gaze. But if ever there was a time for truth between a man and a woman, this was that time.She met...

Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.

Daemon! Dee called from the kitchen. I need your help!We should go see what she's doing before she destroys your kitchen. He rubbed his hands down his face. It's possible.

Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotio...

Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves the dominant political and economic interests of American society. Derrida is clea...

Both scary and down-to-earth, he [John Belushi] once told me, 'I never yell at the staff, only the department heads'.