Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. He...

The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

لا يمكن للإنسان أبداً أن يدرك ماذا عليه أن يفعل، لأنه لا يملك إلا حياة واحدة، لا يسعه مقارنتها بِحَيوات سابقة ولا إصلاحها في حيوات لاحقة.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed.""I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting wo...

Industrial liquid gas containers were left open and venting gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy. On reflection, I realized that I routinely observed mental and physical effects...

Being sceptical about technology is like deciding whether or not you should breath.

Wounds are inspirations to make us stronger than the sun which blazes the day to be longer

What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.

Even though this generation still believes in the miracle working power of God, they must no longer wait for God to bring water from the rocks, but rather construct dams, water systems, subdue the pow...

A road to nowhere will always go somewhere.

زد على ذلك أن هذه الأحلام، إلى فصاحتها، كانت جميلة. لقد أغفل فرويد هذا الجانب في نظريته عن الأحلام. فالحلم ليس فقط بلاغاً (بلاغاً مرموزاً عند الاقتضاء) بل هو أيضاً نشاط جمالي ولعبة للخيال. وهذه اللعبة...

Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of...

That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting.

Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around.

My thoughts are like butterflies. They are beautiful, but they fly away.

Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, thats when the greatest happiness...

My first impression of [Patricia Highsmith] was a loneliness, a sadness in one so young (we were both in our early thirties) with absolutely no sense of joy or balance. Gauche to an extreme, really ph...