Besides, said Suriyawong. This was not a rescue operation.What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon, said Suriyawong. And the loan of a...

Autor wspomina w książce, jak to na jednej z pamiątkowych notatek pozostawionych po wizycie w rzeźni któreś z odwiedzających ją dzieci napisało: Dziękuję za świńskie oczy. Faktycznie, przydałyby nam s...

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.

As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

As Lothaire lifted the lid with a sense of dread, Nïx murmured, Hint: it’s the middle one.Elizabeth’s fragile finger.Seeing it severed like this brought on a visceral reaction—pain shooting through hi...

As I lay there, listening to the soft slap of the sea, and thinking these sad and strange thoughts, more and more and more stars had gathered, obliterating the separateness of the Milky Way and fillin...

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your life when you hate your best friend on Monday and love them again on Tue...

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are mo...

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souff...

I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.

I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

Time flies never to be recalled.

I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary.

Autumn brings the falling of leaves and cool days.

It is easier to align our opinions with facts, than it is to align facts with our opinions.

Nature is self-renewing as it adjusts to maintain balance. Nature becomes even more vibrant as it yields to allow recycling. It is best to align with success and become nature with your health, wealth...