The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeedin...

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

St. Augustine said, The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties. There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day -...

She swallowed and licked her lips. It’s rather good.He laughed breathlessly. Have care, part of his brain whispered. This way only leads to pain. But his c*ck was pressing hard against the placket of...

She is very wonderful, Bertie. She is not one of these flippant, shallow-minded, modern girls. She is sweetly grave and beautifully earnest. She reminds me of - what is the name I want?

Seriously, though, the bouncer won't be a problem. I think he liked me. - DaemonW-w-What? - KatyI think he liked me, like, really liked me. - DaemonYour ego knows no limit, you know that?. - KatyYou'l...

Queen Katherine, whose boys have all died, takes it patiently: that is to say, she suffers.

Lace: Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?Cal: Um, maybe?

Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these...

It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the c...

Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it wil...

I should've blown more stuff up. -Coach Gleeson Hedge

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal.

I don’t know how long it takes for me to realize that isn’t going to happen,that she is gone. But when I do I feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I...

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our timesCreation's mighty seed

Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources.

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can...

Eventually the Korean War will be understood as one of the most destructive and one of the most important wars of the twentieth century.

ESTRAGON: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?VLADIMIR: (impatiently). Yes, yes, we’re magicians. But let us persevere in what we have resolved, before we forget.