Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, i...

You’re here! Isabelle danced up to them in delight, carrying a glass of fuchsia liquid, which she thrust at Clary. Have some of this!Clary squinted at it. Is it going to turn me into a rodent?Where is...

You're going to keep a low profile throughout the entire competition... You're going to stay solidly in the middle, where no one will look your way, because you're not a threat, because they'll think...

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you start...

What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events?How much of recollection is invention?Whose invention?

Well, did he do it?She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant did it or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- th...

We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.

Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away...meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny. - Wayan

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely...

The earth is a dynamic place [...] with multiple different processes of deposition and erosion under way at all times. You can make guesses based on style and weathering, but fragments of worked stone...

The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, it...

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pe...

Tell her I was young once and star-brightWho am now invisible . . .

Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?

Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity...

Polly was the same age as Alma, but daintier and startlingly beautiful. She looked like a perfect figurine carved out of fine French soap, into which someone had inlaid a pair of glittering peacock-bl...