Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood

Chapter Fourteen: Teresa So not unnatural at all, Holden said, tipping a little more wine from the bottle into the doctor’s glass.Meaningless term, Cortázar said. Humans arose inside nature. We’re nat...

But this is terrible! cried Frodo. Far worse than the worst that I imagined from your hints and warnings. O Gandalf, best of friends, what am I to do? For now I am really afraid. What am I to do? What...

But there's only one other person besides me in the Monterey Bay area who could pick up on spectral sound waves-especially now that Jesse is going to school so far away-and that person happened to be...

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Behind him Kaldar nudged Urow's youngest son. Bet you he lasts at least thirty seconds.Um... Gaston looked at him. No he won't.Bet me something.I don't have anything.Kaldar grimaced. Pick up that rock...

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

And what do you know, John's hands flew through the positionsof ASL in various l-got-this combinations.Is he deaf the guy behind the cash register asked in a stagewhisper. As if someone using American...

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn...

Aiden was staring. So was Caleb, although he looked like he was quite used to all this...woman on display. Hell, even I was staring.She crossed the hall, her long legs parting the chiffon of her skirt...

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward slantingI awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for.Tipsy and a bit unshaven, in a tone I found quite craven,Poe was talking to a Ra...

My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your...

My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.

Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.