And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets with a perfunctory mystery element dropped in lik...

El Demonio se agita sin cesar a mi lado,flota a mi alrededor como un aire impalpable;lo respiro y siento que quema mis pulmones,llenándolos de un ansia sempiterna y culpable.Sabiendo lo mucho que amo...

In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.

I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.

Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized...

To advise is not to compel.

NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.

If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad d...

Be brave. Be kind. Be simple. Above all, be crazy with love.

micel walcan wolde we do from that daeg micel walcan in the great holt the brunnesweald but though we walced for wices months years though this holt becum ham to me for so long still we did not see ef...

Change is threatening to the status quo.

Get used to the idea of significant portion of the population walking around with high-speed Internet connections on their person, with sophisticated video cameras built in. They will be shooting all...

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of...

We designate the spirit of the well as 'she' because in most of her personifications she takes a female form, though not invariably. She appears in many guises - ghost, witch, saint, mermaid, fairy, a...

Radiate peace. Who knows? The peace you spread may create the only restful place in your environment.

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, inf...

If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.