For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.
Fear, delight, and being twenty were made for each other:
Don’t worry about me, no matter what happens. We’re nervous here, but not afraid. We have all looked into our souls, one way or another, and are content to die if need be. The only thing left to say i...
Because two propositions can be true at once, he said. Because the world is imperfect. Because we are imperfect. Because sometimes we're called upon to do terrible things. And because we define oursel...
And Peter Lake knew that these things were nothing in themselves but the means by which to remember those he had loved, and to remind him that the power of the love he had known was repeated a million...
And she speculated that the city would be cold, completely of itself, unconscious, that its every move would be transcendent, and that each of its hundred million flashing scenes would strike a moral...
He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.
But little else could deter Craig Binky, for he believed that everything about him was destined to be triumphal. Harry Penn was certain that in his nearly one hundred years he had never encountered a...
Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come clos...
When finally the sky grew ink-black, the trees were visible only as their swaying branches blotted out the stars that crossed in blazing showers, as sometimes they do. The language of the stars, seldo...
When I was in school, Strassnitzky said, I went out one morning in my riding clothes and shod in heavy boots, and as I left the last step I came down on a young bird that had been resting at the foot...
We have been so enthusiastic in our welcome as to be obsequious—to machines.
The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work.
Souls are complicated things.
Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.
Lower [plane] than one of those who perished. It was their war, not mine. I was able to walk out of it, leave it behind. Though God preserved me, the best stories were theirs, and these were cut short...
Little men, he once said, spend their days in pursuit of such things. I know from experience that at the moment of their deaths they see their lives shattered before them like glass. I’ve seen them di...
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.
It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms...
I'm not afraid, Rafi said.Why not?If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.