Dinner was wonderful. There was a joint of beef, with roast potatoes, golden-crisp on the outside and soft and white inside, buttered greens I did not recognize, although I think now that they might h...

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

Do you have a girlfriend? Grandma Frida asked. I put my hand over my face. No, Mad Rogan said. A boyfriend? Grandma Frida asked. No. What about . . . No, Mom and I said in unison. But you don’t even k...

A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

Ah, hell.His peripheral vision was working far too well tonight.His slut of a cousin, his cocksucking, suit-wearing, Montblanc-up-the-ass cousin Saxton the Magnificent, was standing next to the queen,...

And I wished I could believe him. I wished with all that I had. And when you're eleven, you're on the cusp between still believing wishing worked if you wanted something hard enough and understanding...

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question:What would love do now?No other question is relevant, no other question is meaningful, no other question has any importa...

Back in the leather and lace eighties, I was the fantasy editor for a publishing company in New York City. It was a great time to be young and footloose on the streets of Manhattan—punk rock and folk...

Be inquisitive. You already know what you know. A straightforward way to learn something new is simply by asking questions. The more you ask, the more you can learn . . . about life and work, about ot...

Fezes são um bom fertilizante.-Então vamos espalhar você na terra pra ver o que acontece.

My classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of...

1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online.2. Sometimes those opinions will be on...

Never put a sock in a toaster.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.