Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.CLAUDIUS Al...

For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since...

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.

Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes into three acts, each scene inciting tension that builds to...

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Estad, pues, firmes, ceñidos vuestros lomos con la verdad, y vestidos con la coraza de justicia. EFESIOS 6.14 ¿Cuáles son precisamente nuestras armas? Si las fortalezas se construyen por medio de «arg...

Dear Max - You looked so beautiful today. I'm going to remember what you looked like forever.... And I hope you remember me the same way - clean, ha-ha. I'm glad our last time together was happy.But I...

Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.

Cada uno es tal como Dios le hizo, y aún peor muchas veces.

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

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders’ attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to fa...

Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!Oh, sure, Leo said. Like…um, the Little Mermaid?Aphros fr...

America this is quite serious

I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Obviously, swimming is my strength, but I'm also good at fencing.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.

January grey is here Like a sexton by her grave February bears the bier March with grief doth howl and rave And April weeps - but O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.