When I look at it carefully, by examining the interviews and the various social scientists’ studies, it becomes easy for me to see that we all were just rebelling. Regardless of the area we grew up in...

Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of t...

This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and the green place invited refugees—partly because they believed that if th...

They’d been forged of the same ore, two sides of the same golden, scarred coin. She’d know it when she spied him atop the execution plataform. She couldn’t explain it. No one could understand that ins...

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

Sleep tight, ya morons!

Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time

Now play , make-believe dead girl

Just a glance at the ragged mess around her fingernails communicated more than the lenghiest essays on the nature of distress.

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all kno...

In Nietzsche's usage, the word 'Christianity' does not even refer primarily to the religion; using it like a code word, he is thinking more of a particular religio-metaphysically influenced dispositio...

If we accept the generally agreed date of between AD 350 and 550 for the end of the -- at least semi-historical -- 'Third Sangam', then this gives us a fixed reference point on which to anchor the chr...

If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too? - Lucien Vanserra

I've got the Mark of Cain, said Simon. That means nothing can kill me, right?You can kill yourself, Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So...

I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!You did! she retorted. And although I can’t say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that...

I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms,...

I hit him on the back of the neck. He submerged.

His heart stilled at the mere thought of her hurting herself.'He was a fool.' Of course this debate harkened back to her recent capture. To her near rape. What she must have thought when she'd been ki...

He said he’d heard the sound of one hand clapping. He said, once his mind took in the wondrous no-sound of holy oneness, the empty echo of eternal bliss, he was never the same. He could hear it still,...