For the first time the Don showed annoyance. He poured another glass of anisette and drank it down. He pointed a finger at his son. You want to learn, he said. Now listen to me. A man's first duty is...

For Liesel Meminger, the early stages of 1942 could be summed up like this:She became thirteen years of age. Her chest was still flat. She had not yet bled. The young man from her basement was now in...

Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to be wary of.

Did I ever tell you that Alex loves you so much he got your name tattooed all over his body? Hell, he even got your name branded into the back of his neck.They say 'LB,' Carlos. The initials for Latin...

Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and...

Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's...

By the time it was over, we knew the dead were the lucky ones.

Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paintsHemingway testing his shotgunCeline going broke as a doctor of medicinethe impossibility of being humanVillon expelled from Paris f...

Am I too late? Caleb asked as he joined them. Did he do something stupid?Yeah. On both counts. Tristan stalked past Nick.

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

A los que Crowley no podía soportar era a ésos que se llamaban a sí mismos satánicos. No sólo por lo que hacían, sino por la manía que tenían de achacárselo todo al Infierno. Se les ocurría alguna ide...

I got a bright future ahead of me.

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

It is always dullest before the yawn.

If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts with wish as a guest to dwell in the monastery and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place and does not perchance by his lavishness...

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.

It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country.