Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away th...

I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat born on the soil whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens is good quality.

Accidents are built into the road.

The greatest people and most successful ones are the ones who never went to school . Sure.

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What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence.The voice cackled maliciously.'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!'"Only...

Never depend on a road, depend on your strides

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.'And as they stared after me, I went regally back down...

God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.

I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.

Excellence is the best ink with which to make your mark in the world.

The moon seems unawareof night's dark hittingon the damp warm rain misguiding owl's spitting A thunder light of loveraising hearts beatingwhile weather learns morefrom rain lovers meeting

There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.

It's that feeling you get somehow knowing that something great is about to happen... about to happen. While every passing day nothing great really does happen. You wake up, go to classes, study, sleep...

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

Some of my best ideas come from when I'm sitting on the toilet.