The wise man, the dragon rumbled, does not play games with dragons.
The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.
The goddess smiled. You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn. When Dionysus was made a god, I gave up my throne for him. It was the only way to avoid...
The god of Moses would brusquely call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially fi...
The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.
The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there. -Cyrin
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.
The genius of life is its variety.
The game lasts twenty seconds, tops. You don't want to come all that way and miss the game.
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in wh...
The front door banged open at that moment to admit a disheveled James Fairchild. He was like a vision from Bedlam: his blond hair stood on end, and his neckcloth was missing.He looked wildly at Anna....
The frequent traveler is continually confronted with this kind of situation: the behavior that is appropriate in one place is inappropriate in another, even in situations that appear to be identical....
The free-range chickens and Priuses are great, but they alone aren’t adequate tools for creating a truly different society and ecology.
The free man never thinks of escape.
The four-day elevator ride might be nothing more than a prelude to further journeys, some of which might take her to places with little to no bandwidth, and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a s...
The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither.
The following night she came to his bed and she came every night for nine nights running, pushing the door shut and latching it and turning in the slatted light at God knew what hour and stepping out...
The folks who lived before me have done so much for me that I want to show my gratitude by doing something for the folks who will live after me.
The flaw here is the same as the flaw in The End of Men—an all-or-nothing outlook, and an unwillingness to consider nuance.
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