We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.
A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged w...
Like they say, you never know a person till you’ve done time with them.
I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.
He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.
An attack on SeaWorld might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.
So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong.
Jocelyn was dumbstruck. She couldn’t think of a single thingshe’d done that might give that impression. I don’t.
Je zou maar slecht over hem gaan denken en dat wil ik niet, want dat is mijn taak
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it...
What did it mean, all this personal looking backward? What were people hoping to find? What bearing, really, did their ancestry have on who they were now?
Scully was appallingly gregarious—so outgoing she was practically incoming.
No Utopia is Utopia for everyone
I want a normal girlfriend. Someone restful. You know anyone like that?
But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy.
We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.
We used to believe that memories are best retrieved in the same place where they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that’s not so clear anymore. But
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it...