How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.
Far more than the casual recreation we think of when it comes to games of skill in Mesoamerican cultures the ball game was a sacred ritual that reenacted the struggle between the forces of good and ev...
There was no reason why having a high iq would somehow protect you from the vicissitudes of life
The partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the books Vernon had brought, a thriller called utopia.
Nothing motivated a person quite as much as the desire for vengeance.
Nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.
Man and ape are separated more by ego than anatomy
His face. Fenton was never one to like a slow day. The look was enough to tell Barnaby that something big had just come down. Hutch? Hmmm? Fenton went on, breathlessly. The Broadbent place was robbed....
You see, between me and life there is a mist of words always.
You mean, let our most excellent Congress deal with this situation in the same way it has handled our other pressing national problems, such as global warming, terrorism, education, and our crumbling...
We took canoes into the heart of darkness.
To most people, Metcalf had discovered, silence was even more unbearable than pointed questioning.
This was a big divergence from the way human children learn language, and that itself was interesting.
There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. I prefer hypocrisy to poverty.
There can be no doubt: life is a miraculous thing, and even more miraculous is human intelligence. Our world, this earth, is a surpassingly beautiful place, perfectly suited to our needs. It is as if...
There are only a few really high-profile archaeological cultures in the world: Egypt and the Maya.
That European diseases ran rampant in the New World is an old story, but recent discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, and archaeology have painted a picture of the die-off that is truly apocalyptic;...
Sen. Proxmire, the watchdog of the scientific community, has tracked down and reported taxpayer-financed scientific research that is redundant, unnecessary, or just plain silly. Those projects that re...
Sandy told him Jennie was part of a secret government scientific project and that if they did anything to her the FBI would put him in jail.
Resistance would be futile, and futility itself was, of course, to be resisted.