I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentenc...

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.

Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.

And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.

I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians.

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

Curran lunged at a silver Bentley. The hood went flying. He thrust his hand into the car. Metal screamed, and Curran jerked a twisted clump out of the hood and smashed it into the nearest car like a c...

Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same.Barking spiders, she muttered softly,

As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the moods, the scents, the subtle, mysterious light, the poetry, the heightened exp...

Because my patient just sat herself up--and I'm not talking about her raising her torso off the damn pillows. I wasn't there when she did it and I need to see how it happened.Red Sox seemed to stop br...

Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.