And last week, when he finally began to erase it, he noticed something very strange: the accent on the letter E was actually formed from a piece of materiel. We all watched as he stared at the letter...

Catawamteak, meaning the great landing, is what the Abenaki Indians called the early settlement that became Rockland, Maine. Thomaston and Rockland can be bypassed by Route 90, an eight-mile shortcut...

Charlotte Evans was used to feeling grungy. As a freelancer, she traveled on a shoestring, getting stories other writers did not, precisely because she wasn't fussy about how she lived. In the last tw...

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil...

Dan was thrilled that the second clue had been safely smuggled out of the church in his pants.So, really, I saved the day, he decided.Wait a minute, Amy said, climbed onto the roof in the middle of a...

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.

But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this,...

But how? my students ask. How do you actually do it? You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creati...

As Plato said, every soul is deprived of truth against its will. The same holds true for justice, self-control, goodwill to others, and every similar virtue. It’s essential to constantly keep this in...

Six thousandpounds of muscle powering a hoopof butcher's knives. The only animal

. . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the app...

A man feared that he might find an assassin;

A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most.

A pretty girl with butterfly clips in her dreadlocks put her hand on his arm. You were amazing, she told him, her voice fluting. You have the reflexes of a striking snake. You should be a stuntman. Re...

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

I am not a fitness freak, but I do my regular exercises.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.