You think I don’t deserve him, I say to Cardan.He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. Oh no, I think you’re perfect for each other.

You said yourself that the people of Luna need a revolutionary. She lifted her chin, holding his gaze. So I’m going to Luna, and I’m going to start a revolution.

Will ye come with me? he whispered.And she answered without hesitation. Yes, please.

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...

What would have made [seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple that once stood here--a temple dedicated to (usually contracted to ), t...

What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.

What is it like when you lose someone you love? Jane asked.You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.

What i want to write about is the sea...It is my favorite thing, i think that i ever seen. Sometimes i catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone...

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Tighter than a straight man's butt cheeks in prison

They think they're better than everyone else.No, said Jace. I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence. Kyle looked at Simon. Does he always talk lik...

There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance.Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and belting out, Booga-wooga!At least Eddie laughed. Adrian flipped Jim the bird and headed to the fridge for a...

The pressure of the environment cramps art as it cramps behaviour. One may challenge this environment, but one has to pay for it, and the price is neurotic guilt. There never was an intelligentsia wit...

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, . He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about t...

The headsman's axe knows not where it is to fall. It is simply a weapon directed by the hand of another.- Ahzek Ahriman

The fact that pigs were abroad in the night seemed to bring home to me the perilous nature of my enterprise.

Stop! Narcissus got to his feet. This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be... He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about an...

St. Augustine said, The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties. There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day -...

Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.Lying in bed with me?