As children', wrote Alice Raikes (Mrs. Wilson Fox) in The Times, January 22, 1932, 'we lived in Onslow Square and used to play in the garden behind the houses. Charles Dodgson used to stay with an old...

Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction.

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this...

The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfect time.

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

It is simply impossible for "refugees" to check their Islamism at the door.

You can take the Muslim out of the Caliphate, but you can't take the Caliphate out of the Muslim.

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

Just smile.You'll be glad that you did.

He slept under the sky, holding her hand, filling the gaps between her fingers and losing himself inside the soul in the course of counting the stars, she was hiding inside her eyes.

The world is your lobster!

human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism, and ethnocentrism for dealing with "other" cultures.

When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.

Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot prec...

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.