I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman,...

I get down on my knees every mornin' an' give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.

I was a Shoemaker, & got my living by my Labor. When this Rebellion come on, I saw some of my Neighbors got into Commission, who were no better than myself. I was very ambitious, & did not like to see...

I was just thoughts, just air. There was nothingness all around me. Was this what it was like to be dead? When you died, did you still sense everything going on around you, only it was happening so fa...

I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32)

I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.

For every victory there is a price.

For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert to the ironies, the niceties, the manners, and indeed, the morals to be able...

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Ghost? I asked.Moon Man pointed to Valek. Kiki’s name for him. It makes sense, he said, seeing the look of confusion on my face. To magical beings, we see the world through our magic. We see him with...

God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He...

Ha, I said. Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, ’cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?One, said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.

To those who still deludedly think they prefer Star Wars over Ghostbusters, all I need to do is ask you is this: You don’t really want to be a Jedi, do you? In a greige cowl, getting off with your sis...

Tony had spent a great deal of time dwelling on whoever this poor Disney hostess must have been, not as a casualty but as a person. She never got to be an adult, he’d told himself in horror.

Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with messages that tell us love is about mystery, about that which cannot be known. We see movies in whi...

Vane watched her reaction from under heavy lids, watched flaring passion light her eyes. Sparks of pure gold flashed in the hazel depths as he gently kneaded, then sent his fingers gliding over her si...

The walls weren't moving, and the room was open - gaping. No colors, but shades of darkness, of night . Only those star-flecked violet eyes were bright, full of color and light. He gave me a lazy smil...

Then she laughed for real, and put her hands around my neck. 'I am never, ever going to make things easy for you Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.' When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melt...

There are those among us who have erred, deeply and significantly. Who have wounded the world and broken themselves. The worst of them lose themselves in their errors. The best of them crawl back, one...