Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so.

Interviewer: Didn't want to believe?Druyan:

Industrial processes follow a clear, linear, hierarchical logic that is fairly easy to put into words, probably because words follow a similar logic: First this, then that; put this in here, and then...

In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with meltwater splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half, hidden by the cr...

If you want to sing, sing like today is your last.If you want to dance, dance like today is your last.If you want to laugh, laugh like today is your last.If birds sing without worrying about who is li...

If you want a woman with a tight little kitty, the find one with itty bitty titties!

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke,...

If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband to finish risking his stupid neck, I'd use the time to see what I could spot.

Idris had been green and gold and russet in the autumn, when Clary had first been there. It had a stark grandeur in the winter: the mountains rose in the distance, capped white with snow, and the tree...

I'm trying... How could I put it? I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember. I stopped, then continued: so that I can remember without the pain killing meAnd the days were stac...

I'll call you, Manny said.You do that, my man. You frickin' do that.-Manny to V

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

I watch because of that look of acceptance in the animal’s eyes. Absurdly, I imagine the animal understands. I imagined the animal sees that its imminent demise is for a higher purpose.

I want nothing more than to climb between the silk sheets and wrap our nude bodies around one another. I want to hold and be held. Sex is a wondrous thing, but tonight I wish to be comforted more than...

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

I need a hug from you to make me feel better about the fact I need a hug from you.

I look up at the sky, wondering if I'll catch a glimpse of kindness there, but I don't. All I see are indifferent summer clouds drifting over the Pacific. And they have nothing to say to me. Clouds ar...

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream ab...

Hello? A girl again. I know you can hear me. I'm sorry my friend is such a wing nut. You can just ignore him.That's usually what we do, said the other feminine voice.

He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!