Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

[Hazel] hissed in frustration. 'I hate eidolons. I thought Piper made them promise to stay away.''Oh...' Frank said, like he'd just had his own daily happy thought. 'Piper made them promise to stay of...

[Enoch Root] hadn't really known what to expect of America. But people here seem to do things—hangings included—with a blunt, blank efficiency that's admirable and disappointing at the same time. Like...

You've a pretty good nerve, said Ratchett. Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?It will not.If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me.I, also M. Ratchett.Wh...

You both passed out, Percy said. I don’t know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were…sharing?Sharing, Ella agreed. She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with he...

Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I would find meaningful. I paid little attention at first and unfortunately I don’t recall just who gav...

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

We were poor back then. Not living in a cardboard carton poor, not we might have to eat the dog poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald's was a really big excitement...

We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden from Him or incomprehensible to Him.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat;...

The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin.

Since childhood, I’d believed it was important to speak out against bullies while also not stooping to their level. And to be clear, we were now up against a bully, a man who among other things demean...