When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their...
What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.
She'd heard theories in her time regarding the number-one enemy of everything, ranging from Osama bin Laden to premarital sex. The dust theory she liked.
I don't see why you're not just going for this.' Dovey looked her in the eyes, in the mirror. 'You a rocket. You go for thing, Dellarobia. That is you. When did you ever not?'
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I was his instrument, his animal. Nothing more. How we wives and mothers do perish...
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
When the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.
What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning th...
The last generations's worst fears become the next one's B-grade entertainment.
The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.
Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
Converstations with a mother of five are education in patience.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.
The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assistance, the more I mistrust it. Poultry, a significant part of the modern diet, i...