The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions a mockery of our sense of order. The clown (freedom) is always being chased by the policeman (author...

Quick, Derek, it's your chance to shine, Ascanio said.Derek gave him a withering look.Desandra is a mother, Robert is married, Kate's affianced, and I'm an old soul. You're the closest thing to a virg...

Percy says be talked to a Nereid in Charleston Harbor!Good for him! Leo yelled back. The Nereid said we should seek help from Chiron’s brothers.What does that mean? The Party Ponies? Leo had never met...

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more...

Laurie, you’re an angel! How shall I ever thank you?Fly at me again; I rather like it, said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.

Isabelle, she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, your loyalty to your friend is understandable --He's not my friend. Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of da...

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I l...

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped awa...

Hoover Dam, Thalia said. It's huge.We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. People were walking along the top of the dam. They were so tiny they...

He's having a vision, I said. That's what happens. (Maya)Attractive, I know, Corey said between gritted teeth. And now I get new witnesses to my humiliation. Wonderful.We're used to it, Chloe said. De...

From then on, it was even twistier B-roads through a country so photgenically rural that I half expected to meet Bilbo Baggins around the next corner - providing he'd taken to driving a Nissan Micra.

Everything means something.

But I fear my senses can't be trusted in this new land.Eleanor sneaked a glance at his harsh and handsome features. No matter how much she wanted to dislike his presumption and his arrogance, she foun...

Almost before the strings of her corset were freed, his palms slid into the bodice of her gown, closing around her breasts, filling his hands with soft, overflowing flesh, for her breasts seemed to sw...

Ahhh, you two are special friends. NickHow do you mean? KyrianHe thinks we're a couple AshNo No No Definitely not. Not that Acheron is not an attractive man, not that I've ever really noticed whether...

Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is...