When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

What in hell is that?She kept going toward the bathroom, refusing to apologize or look down at the pink, delicate, veryshort lace nightgown. When she emerged, face washed and clean, Rowan was sitting...

We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John al...

We Are Lovable

Warner laces his boots and sings the songs and marches the marches, acting less out of duty than out of a time worn desire to be dutiful.

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

Vishous, son of the Bloodletter, was not the kind of male anyone addressed like that. Except, apparently, for Wrath. In this case, the Brother with the tattoos on his face and the perverted reputation...

This little piggy went to HadesThis little piggy stayed homeThis little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

They think I’m not entirely ‘grounded in reality’, they say. They want me to go to some live-in nerdy activity ranch thing for troubled Canadian youth, that one out in Ontario where you come back prog...

There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them.

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

The truth is, Colonel, that there's no divine spark, bless you. There's many a man alive no more value than a dead dog. Believe me, when you've seen them hang each other...Equality? Christ in Heaven....

The rain started a few minutes later, a fine mist at first, growing more steady as the miles flew by. The Mercedes hummed along, following the ribbon of road. The night enveloped us, the darkness brok...

The older lady harrumphed. I warned you, daughter. This scoundrel Hades is no good. You could've married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but . You had to eat the pomegranate.Mother-And get s...

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity...

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875-1961) first introduced the concept of synchronicity to describe the meaningful coincidences which occur in our lives and connect us all in our humanity.

Still, as I tend to repeat, I have some instinct for survival, for self-preservation. And believing you have such an instinct is almost as good as actually having it, because it means you act in the s...

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished...