Have I told you about the tension of opposites? he says.The tension of opposites?Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something h...

I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained.

Holy gods. He'd frozen the whole damn lake. He was THAT powerful?

How is Eric?''Very tightly wound. Plus, a lot of stuff happened that he'll tell you about.''Thanks for the warning. I'll go to the house now. You're my favorite breather.''Oh. Well ... great.'She hung...

Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell.I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.

I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

I don't know the ultimate fate of a suppressed fart.

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowl...

I have brought peace to this land, and security, he began.And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the u...

I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else thought, or to bother attempting to change their perceptions. My time at the Keep was just a stopover....

Either Ault was a lot harder than my junior high had been, or I was getting dumber- I suspected both. If I wasn't literally getting dumber, I knew at least that I'd lost the glow that surrounds you wh...

Estabrooks himself a 32nd degree Mason. Although the Masons are not implicated as an organization in CIA and military mind control, connections in the network of doctors were maintained in part throug...

Father Dominic, however is a way better mediator than I am. Well, maybe not better. But different, certainly. See, he really feels that ghosts are best handled with gentle guidance and earnest advice-...

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

If you are a dreamer, come in,If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...If you're a pretender, come sit by my fireFor we have some flax-golden tales to spin.

Iggy. This is not a democracy, I said,(...)It'sa Maxocracy.

In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collecti...

In fact the United States has had no exit strategy since 1945, expect in places where we were kicked out (Vietnam) or asked to leave (the Philippines): American troops still occupy Japan, Korea, and G...

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.