I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pau...

I can see one of them clearly now, walkingalong with a newspaper tucked under his arm.he has cut himself shaving and a bit of tissuewith a circle of blood is stuck to his cheek,

I couldn't tell you what was happening on the TV screen. My eyes saw the pictures, but could not register what was happening, especially since my eyes kept falling on Luke. I knew that he knew that I...

I was young myself once, and believe me, in love the truth is of no importance.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland.

George she practically squealed, and once again he shushed her.You never learn, do you? he murmured against her skin. You're the one who's making me scream.That wasn't a scream, he said with a cocktai...

Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth...

Have we not reached a stage in history where no small nation is safe any longer, where they all must live on sufferance from the dictators? Gone are those pleasant nineteenth-century days when a count...

He had stayed. And fought for me. Week after week, he’d fought for me, even when I had no reaction , even when I had barely been able to speak or bring myself to care if I lived or died or ate or star...

He shook his head pityingly. This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You...

Come all you thoughtless young men,a warning take by meAnd never leave your happy homesto sail the raging sea.

Como dice Blanchot, la esencia de la literatura nunca está ya aquí, siempre hay que encontrarla o inventarla de nuevo. Así vengo yo trabajando en estas notas, buscando e inventando, prescindiendo de q...

Cristo, il fato ci sapeva fare quando doveva darti una lezione, anche se ti accorgevi sempre troppo tardi di averne bisogno: aveva passato decisamente troppo tempo ripiegato su se stesso, a rimuginare...

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?

Turn my back on the world... the historian repeated softly and slowly, his head moving to face the mage. Turn my back on the world! Emotion rarely marred the surface of Astinus's cold voice, but now a...

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.