There is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significan...

She was afraid of losing her shape, spreading out, not being able to contain herself any longer, beginning (that would be worst of all) to talk a lot, to tell everybody, to cry.

He'd been about to turn away when she lifted her face to the moon and sang.It was not in any language that he knew. Not in the common tongue, or in Eyllwe, or in the languages of Fenharrow or Melisand...

When the plague struck Chicago, the townspeople here erected the gargoyles, and nary a soul was lost to the Black Death. The bubonic plague predates Chicago by about five hundred years. He lowered him...

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it,...

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.'

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond their control, and when it spread, the gossip spread the word around, but people just ran away. The g...

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

Books on the bookshelvesAnd stacked on the floorBooks kept in basketsAnd propped by the doorBooks in neat pilesAnd in disarrayBooks tucked in closetsAnd books on displayBooks filling cranniesAnd books...

There is this presumption, in those who feel destined for art and above all literature: we act as if we had received an investiture, but in fact no one has invested us with anything, it is we who have...

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that it...

A giant motherboard of geese,unruffled by the statepolice, swarmed in unison,in harmony...

In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting...if ever it was.

The soul is like a caged bird, it waits for the right person to open the door and set it free.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art