For an American like me, growing up linked to a very different food chain, yet one that is also rooted in a field of corn, not to think of himself as a corn person suggests either a failure of imagina...

Four shapeshifters are missing, the office smells like blood, you see some weird woman in a transparent gown who clearly shouldn't be in the building, and you run after her?It's my job to run after he...

Francis Crozier now understood that the most desirable and erotic thing a woman could wear were the many modest layers such as Sophia Cracroft wore to dinner in the governor's house, enough silken fab...

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.

From all accounts, it seems the faithful opposition is reduced to Gideon's 300. The day has arrived for Christians to engage the battle...From now on, true Christians will engage the battle of ideas i...

Fundamentalist religion is hell-bent on ruining the scientific education of countless thousands of innocent, well-meaning, eager young minds. Non-fundamentalist, sensible religion may not be doing tha...

Gabriel Walsh comes from a long line of hustlers. He’s just the first one to go to law school and get a license for it.

Gregori turned the power of his silver eyes directly on her face. Your father and I have lived over a thousand years, . Why would you think you should have the knowledge of the ancients? You are a bea...

Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore's final words to himself. I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. ... Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it...

I gotta say—Apollo broke the silence—these kids did okay. He cleared his throat and began to recite: —Um, yes, first class, Hermes interrupted, like he was anxious to avoid Apollo's poetry.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator — that's beyond my conceit. I therefore hav...

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' 'The way I want it?' 'Yeah. The way you want...

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

He knew he could worm his way beneath her defenses—he’d read every word of those diaries. He knew the one absolute way to fulfill her every dream. The problem was, could he do that to her? He didn’t h...

He penned a letter to the Company in London, a letter whose unfailing spirit would become legendary among the sailors of the East India Company. 'I cannot tell where you should looke for me.' he wrote...

Hello, Max, he said quietly, searching my face. How do you feel?Which was a ten on the imbecilic question scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb, I said brightly. How about you?

It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.

Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.

Acceptance is a thing... look into it.If it is something in you, about you, done by you... and you aren't happy with it... you don't have to accept it. You have the power to affect change.If it someth...

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.