The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I'm awa...

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

Take off your coat.Excuse me?Take it off.No.I want it off.Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous...

The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman?Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our...

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

But he place a gentle palm under her chin and turned her face back to him. I'm privileged to see you like this, he said, his eyes fierce. Wear you social mask at your balls and parties and when you vi...

Can I help you with something?Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you.Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. Of course they a...

Captain! To your left there’s a Lunar guard and on your right is a doctor who’s running tests on Lunars and I’m being held by one of Levana’s wolf hybrids and please be careful!Thorne took a step back...

'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think; drips off one's teeth like sugar-syrup.'

A person who takes a gun holds it to somebody’s head, and intimidates them for money or take their property from them. The person who gets into an argument and his only resort is to take a gun or some...

Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember?No. I was unconscious.

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with...

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.Sir?It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.Sir?That’s practically zen...

Could you possibly be a little more incoherent? asked Olivenko. There are bits of this I'm almost understanding, and I'm sure that's not what you have in mind.

Dearly weird and motley beings, we're gathered here today for . . . yada, yada, yada. Seth say something profound and sweet to Lydia. SavitarMy Lydia is like a star rising to guide me through the dark...

Derinlerdeki mahzenlerde, köklerin yayıldığı mağaralarda ve yüreğin karanlık kuyularında tutkunun hakiki ve tehlikeli canavarları fosforlu pırıltılarını saçarak dolaşırken, gizlice çiftleşir ve en akı...

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I m...

When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to com...

Why? he whispered as he leaned over her, supported on one arm. Why must ye be the one that haunts me dreams? I’ve seen ye weepin’ night after bloody night since the day I sent ye from me palace with y...