Rich old people are more attractive than poor old people, so by all means, try to get rich before age sets in. Otherwise, you'll just be playing catch-up for the rest of your life and that will just w...

SNAPE: Did no one teach you to knock, boy?Scorpius looks up at Snape, slightly breathless, slightly unsure, slightly exultant.SCORPIUS: Severus Snape. This is an honor.

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother:...

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

NEWT: What d’you think I should say to her, if I see her?JACOB: Oh, well, it’s best not to plan these things. You know, you just say whatever comes to you in the moment.A beat. They walk.NEWT (reminis...

Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. Does Zeus really have lightningbolts that do six hundred damage? Does he get extra movement points for—Nico, shut up! Bianca put her hands to her...

No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But no...

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of discovering the longitude became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

Intrusive, thoughtless people! said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agreed with him, at least K. thought that was what he saw from the corner of his eye. But it was just as...

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to then assuage them with new products.

It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energy. And this energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields that are not employed in perc...

Non sai mai quando sarà l'ultima volta in cui vedi tuo padre o baci tua moglie o giochi con il tuo fratellino, ma c'è sempre un'ultima volta. Se riuscissimo a ricordare ogni ultima volta, non smettere...

Not only was the constellation of Orion part of the Moundville story [of Native Americans], not only was a journey to the realm of the dead part of it, too, but now I knew also that a series of trials...

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and sh...

Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look th...

Old soul. I laughed. You're Thirty.It's not the years, it's the experience, he paused.