Every city has its gates, which need not be of stone. Nor need soldiersbe upon them or watchers before them. At first, when cities were jewels in adark and mysterious world, they tended to be round an...
Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that sits screaming in every living room in the land.
He heard the Baymen tell of war, but they never said it could be harnessed, its head held down, and made to run in place.
How far do you have to go before you forgive yourself for how you were born?
How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a con...
I am not a well educated man except that I have educated myself, and,because I have educated myself, what I say will not stand up, for lack of recognized authority. This in turn leaves me free to say...
I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Co...
Its funny, as soon as you lose faith, you have children, and life reawakens.
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him a...
The greatest blizzards start with the finest snow.
The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road.
The smell of hot bread came from underneath the tent walls, and Perseus said that the ovens had just been opened. You haven't eaten in three days. You'd better strengthen yourself. How can I eat, Ales...
What do they mean to you? he asked, leaning back into the portable thicket of his gray vested suit. Beverly took back her pages and studied them. After a while, she looked up. They mean to me that the...
This marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.
Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water.
He was able to find the intensity and beauty that he wanted, in the plung itself. Physical forces in a complicated coalition of gravity, acceleration, and temperature were powerful and intense enough...
I didn't know the world could be like this ... I've never seen the sky in such a passion of kindness.
Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who had bent over just slightly to examine a raging battle that was long...
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