Sailing is the perfect antidote for age, Reyes. Everything you do on a sailboat is done slowly and thoughtfully. Most of the time, an old body is entirely capable of doing whatever needs to be done wh...
Did you think you were the only one? Is it possible that you are so arrogant? he asked, in tones of wonderment. Sandoz was blinking rapidly now. Did you think you were the only one ever to wonder if w...
And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.
Privileged to share in the athletic power of a large and dangerous animal willing to be controlled by the small, frail strength of a mere human being.
Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way
My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.
Listen', he said seriously, 'I'm not just wasting your time telling funny stories. You have to know about stuff like this or your program is going to claim it's found intelligent life on Mars. And eve...
I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religions into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known.
I movin' to Arizona! Dammit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions.
Her life had been blessedly unburdened by happiness. When some period of fleeting contentment ended, Sofia Mendes did not register it as outrageous, but merely noted a return to life’s normal conditio...
Deus vult, mes amis, Marc Robichaux called cheerfully from the galley. God likes it that way.
Bein' born is craps. How we live is . Mamma played a bad hand well.
And Johannes Voelker is the last man on Earth I’d choose as a spiritual director for Sandoz, he thought. Shit or get off the pot, my son.
She was, after all, a practical woman and the daughter of an economist.
You know what’s the most terrifying thing about admitting that you’re in love? she asked him. You are just naked. You put yourself in harm’s way and you lay down all your defenses. No clothes, no weap...
You ever hear that old joke about the guy who jumped off the Empire State Building? D.W. asked her. Yeah. All the way down, you could hear him say, ‘So far, so good. So far, so good. So far, so good.’...
Within himself, Tom Fisher smiles serenely. It's almost too easy. Promise these morons something they want. Let them believe in it. Then take it away. And tell them who's to blame.
They strolled toward town, stopping now and then to let him catch his breath and to gaze upward, for the west Kansas sky is black velvet on clear, cool December nights, and the Milky Way is strung acr...
Show God what yer made of, man. Pucker up and kiss the cross.
Our physicists have confirmed the practicality of using an altered asteroid for transport,