Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination. Every time you give them a new metaphor, a mustard seed, a field, a garden, a vineyard, it's like pointing something out to a cat - the...
Dancing?, ventured Portia. I do so prefer dancing to suffering, don't you, Nerissa?You speak as if one must choose one over another. For every gentleman who has turned you around a ballroom can attest...
A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you’re a politician, right?
She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.
What love is not torment when a man knows not how to love himself? Talk not of drowning, but attaining your heart's desire by action: Put money in thy purse.
Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the brain-eating thing. Then they're going to IKEA, I guess
We really have to get going, Sam said. Can we leave the car here and pick it up later?The monk said, Does a dog have a Buddha nature?Does a fish have a watertight asshole? said Coyote.
True, but there was a plaque depicted in the painting, hung around the figure's neck, and on it was writing in Sumerian cuneiform. As you know, in addition to my other studies, I am an amateur necroli...
They were both lean and blond and weather-beaten, and one evening, as they were portaging gear from their respective Zodiacs, Libby unzipped her survival suit and tied the sleeves around her waist so...
There's some heinous fuckery goin' on mon.
The three jewels of the Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.
The hip-hop guy nodded curtly, like he knew that, and despite appearances to the contrary, he had not been trippin', but had, in fact, been chillin' like a mo-fuckin' villain, so step the fuck off, wi...
She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.
Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening.
Once through the door Edmund pulled me roughly aside. The big yeoman at the threshold lowered the blade of his halberd an inch and frowned at the bastard. Edmund released me and looked bewildered, as...
Now, I am the younger brother of an older brother who often measured the worth of a guy by his ability to not scream under pressure, and insisted, in fact, that if any screamlike sounds ever reached M...
No. Tommy turned and headed toward the door. As he reached it he turned and said, I'm not fucked. The Sartre reader looked up from his book and said, We all are. We all are.
Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory
I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.
I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.