Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we...

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

You do this often? she asked.Drink or hijack women?

Wide gape the gates of yellowed bone. A tongue of plank is our path between the teeth as we walk toward the gullet. Here I will be devoured. This is a true thing, near unavoidable on any path. I must...

When the first news of the Nazi camps was published in 1945, there were those who thought the facts might be exaggerated either by Allied war propaganda or by the human tendency to relish 'atrocity st...

Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and from thine eyeAll lesser birds will take their jollity.Up, up, fair bride, and callThy stars from o...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no excepti...

Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.I hardly think there’s any chance of that, Amelie said. I doubt you have the capacity.

Of course, in television's presentation of the news of the day, we may see the Now...this mode of discourse in it's boldest and most embarrassing form. For there, we are presented not only with fragme...

LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face...

I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.And I was not a mouse.I was a wolf.

I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.

I came to claim the one I love.

Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and com...

During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear friend David Rieff. On one occasion, we made a special detour to the...

Do I look like a mess? she asked.He nodded. But you’re my mess, he whispered.

At the door, Audrey called, Are you coming?No, just breathing hard, love. He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, Oh, my God!

At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine’s eyes., Shadowhunter, he said.

A forest, William said, his expression distant. Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their roots. Where the wind smells of game and wildflowers....

Cupid said. Great, Jason said. Now he's spouting greeting card messages.