A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everyb...

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

Dullness is a misdemeanour.

Do you love me?What?Do you?I love you. I don't know if I trust you.Maybe you shouldn't do either.Maybe I'm the one who should decide!

Halloween creatures both friendly & gruesome peered out of the rustling leaves.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

a generation:the black night gave me black eyesstill I use them to seek the light

Frank couldn't breathe underwater.But where was he?Percy turned in a full circle. Nothing. Then he glanced up. Hovering above him was a giant goldfish. Frank had turned -clothes, backpack, and all- in...

Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.

Let's chew on the chewables!

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.

..the guests milled back and forth: men stood with their heads together, discussing politics and crops, their stiff white shirts puffed and ruffled, their voices rising and falling in steadfast opinio...

She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

You stayed strong in those moments of your life. You were alone. You battled loneliness. And you somehow discovered your inner calm and survived!Now you deserve the happiness that you have been denyin...

I've never been scared of the dark, but I'm still terrified of what's in it.

Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.