To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better...

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

You're a hopeless romantic, said Faber. It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor fami...

You quit? I thought you said it was too dangerous to quit, Alex. You said people who try to get out die.I almost did. If it weren't for Gary Frankel, I probably wouldn't have made it. . . .Gary Franke...

You don't have to do this for me, Emma was saying, softly but earnestly, in a voice Cristina had never heard her use before. I think I do, said Julian. I think I remember making a vow to that effect.'...

You are my people. Whether my grandmother decrees it or not, you are my people, and always will be. But I will fly against you, if need be, to ensure that there is a future for those who cannot fight...

What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

Turning, she strode to the doorway, and for the second time, came to a stop. In front of the fire, on the large, soft rug before it, Jonas lay with Amber.He'd changed clothes. Dressed in loose sweatpa...

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here the day embraces...

There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things.

Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!''Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look bac...

The leaders at that time believed so much in protecting the name and the reputation of the gang, that I along with one or two other individuals who were still in school who were trusted, responsible,...