Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It was a small dream about time. I was dead, I guess, in deep blank space high up above many white star...

It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

In the context of the English language, there were many more important words than in. There were fancy words, historic words, words that meant life or death. There were multi-syllabic tongue-twisters...

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

At the door, Audrey called, Are you coming?No, just breathing hard, love. He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, Oh, my God!

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

We are new every day.

Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs which are brief and pithy.

The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.

Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them.

I am not angry at Microsoft, as they did give me Windows 10 for free! I do feel a little misled about its reliability on older computers never certified for its installation by the manufacturer though...

On the street below, the weather is calm. But up here, high winds threaten to topple the workers. A sudden gust can knock them from their footing with its sheer force or send a fatal vibration through...

[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only illogical but almost disrespectful to African immigrants...

I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern wha...

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns o...

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character