The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.
The atom was split by persistence.
Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far.
Love is a powerful painkiller.
Liars are exhausting people.
Is it possible to be wiser on the page than you are in life? I'm hoping so.
I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining...
I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.
I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.
Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.
Who all these people, so many of them brown? What this ritual unfolding around him? I've never seen a German look as German as Clark did when he assessed his likely assessors. His eyes were like sm...
What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarassment?
The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.
Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.
Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn
Overpopulation has a ceiling: earth’s total surface area divided by the dimensions of one economy seat. One more baby is born and hello cannibalism.
Our faith was a flickering flame.
If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I'd opt for the long, wide-angle shot, I think.
I sensed that almost all of them knew they didn't have much more time on earth. Maybe this accounted for their willingness to pitch in with strangers and form a neighborhood.
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns...