Architecture aims at Eternity.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

»En verdad, querida, me molestáis sin tasa y compasión; diríase, al oíros suspirar, que padecéis más que las espigadoras sexagenarias y las viejas pordioseras que van recogiendo mendrugos de pan a las...

You're not a dork, you're adorkable.

You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him.So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Whatever else came tomorrow and for the rest of her life, she would have this moment: this one point in time when she was intimately linked to Maximus.Maximus the man.

This original version of Coca-Cola contained a small amount of coca extract and therefore a trace of cocaine. (It was eliminated early in the twentieth century, though other extracts derived from coca...

They hate us because they feel--and they are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that we practice a kind of passive-aggressive violence on the Third World. We do this by, fo...

Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. They just aren't as interesting naked, she said. It's the unwrapping that's half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs.

The desire to run so far that he wouldn’t be able to catch up played through me, but in mygut, I knew he would. And somehow, it filled me with an odd sense of safety, knowing that,no matter how far I...

Ten minutes passed before his (Ranger's) Mercedes appeared at the end of the street, gliding through the rain, sleek and sinister, water not daring to adhere to the paint finish.

Tell me something, Xcor drawled.Yes?Is his piggish head still attached to that weak little body of his?Assail chuckled. No.Do you know that is among my favorite ways of killing?A warming for me, Xcor?...

Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything...

Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize C...

St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years wa...

So now get up.'Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned toward the gate, as if someone might arrive to help hi...