Because I see myself, first and foremost, as a man pursuing answers to fundamental questions. Now, if the people around me—he gestures at his students who have begun to crowd in—are sharp enough to ab...
Abby, Lawrence said, do exactly what I say, right when I say, no matter how crazy it sounds.
A tenet of stoicism advises to live according to your nature. If you try to be something you aren’t, you’ll self-destruct.
Is the sound of money being made, and only two things will stop them—Christmas and tragedy. He dismounts his albino steed, the horse’s pinked nostrils flaring, dirty mane matted with ice. The single-r...
Deflating. Then empty. His diaphragm relaxed. He counted to three and squeezed the trigger. The British-made AWM bucked hard against his shoulder, the report dampened by the suppressor. Recovering fro...
When we numb our minds to sleep on all manner of screens and HD entertainment, the meaning of life, of our existence and purpose, becomes lost.
We live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.
This is best illustrated by looking up into the night sky at stars whose brilliance took fifty light-years to reach our eyes. Or five hundred. Or five billion. We’re not just looking into space, we’re...
The way it watched him was unnerving—a definite intelligence all the more frightening because he couldn’t know how deep it went.
The twelve burros crane their scrawny necks in his direction when Brady emerges from the merc. He reaches into his greatcoat, pulls out a tin of Star Navy tobacco, and shoves a chaw between lips and g...
The sun was gone, and in the wake of its passing, mountain ranges stood profiled against the evening sky like a misshapen saw blade. There was nothing to see of the pine forest a thousand feet below....
The search for meaning was the cornerstone of human disquiet.
The punctuations of silence weren’t completely uncomfortable. Ethan was beginning to understand that in Wayward Pines these periods of shared quiet were normal, expected, inevitable. Some people, by n...
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.’ Albert Einstein said that. We should all savor
The hurdler hit the sidewalk midstride and accelerated, dressed all in black, boots pounding the street. He carried a machete whose wet blade glimmered under the glancing beam of his headlamp, running...
Standing on this work of art and imagination, I feel small in the best kind of way.
Something niggled her. A seemingly small fact she was overlooking. A rodent scurried through some leaves nearby. A mosquito whined in her ear. What was it? No flashlight. That was it. Fitch hadn’t bro...
She studied the document. Looks like a bunch of legalese. Pretty much. You wanna give me the CliffsNotes since I didn’t go to law school?
She loved at light-speed. No hesitation. No regrets. No conditions. No reservations.
She cut into a waffle and said, Gotta be honest—I’m not over the moon about the word ‘heist.’ No? It’s one of my favorites.