Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metap...
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
Your place does keep you sane, but can also keep you lonely.
Well, Hae-Joo probed, what did I do to relax? I play Go against my sony, I said.To relax? he responded, incredulous. Who wins, you or the sony?The sony, I answered, or how would I ever improve?So winn...
Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility. Ascension creates a hunger sharp enough to consume the subject’s sanity,
What a uniquely capitalist response to that gender inequality: women have been forced by convention for generations – millennia – to spend money on expensive clothes and agonising shoes, to daub thems...
What happens to all the seconds tipped into the bin of the past?
What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shift...
What if trying to avoid the future is what triggers it all?
What is poker? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo?
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to po...
What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?
What's the book like?Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!
When I was a young man, and the Russkies were going to blow us all to Kingdom Come, we were told we’d have a four-minute warning. I’m talking Ford, Carter, Reagan Days. Four minutes, I used to wonder...
When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly.
When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I’d be one day to look inside it.
When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist.
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.
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