One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irritably into the middle of the flames, which made Thor feel slightly better and made all the dwarfs fe...
Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make ba...
Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as we...
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.
Change. Change. Change. Change … change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.
I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm summer's night, dark, and moonless. There were a handful of fireflies flickering intermittent...
Each insult is woven with just enough truth to make it wound.
I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.
You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.
This little piggy went to HadesThis little piggy stayed homeThis little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh
There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.
There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made in...
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
I believe that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.
Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world...
It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a...