I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis {we all have to choose our role models, as...
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
I'm looking for me in you, that my hollowness makes it impossible to identify my needs and my desires
The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.
For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the world for...
God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness.
The Word frees us from smallness of mind {1 Kings 4:29} and from threatening confinements {Psalm 18:19}.
When we face rejection, it can be a poignant time to tap into our desire, motivation, drive, and passion to pursue what we most want. • Why do I want this? • Why does it matter to me? • Am I...
of good confronting evil, of light overcoming darkness, of love transcending hate. He tilted his head. "Isn't that where all faith begins?"
Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices.
If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.
A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.
New Rule: The White House doesn't have to release the dead Bin Laden photos, but don't pretend we can't take it. We've seen pictures of Britney Spears's vagina getting out of a car. Television has...
- If a woman wears a short skirt in the company of a man it means "I want to fuck", if she talks with a man when she wears a short skirt it means "I want to fuck just you". - And if I have no clothes...
Most people just want to see you fall, that's more reason to stand tall.
I love Jay-Z.
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.
When at the typewriter I am no longer where I sit but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use...
If anyone scolds you, just receive it thankfully. Because, they want you to become a better person than before.
You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a passionate moment with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with...
I recently heard of a real estate professional who LOVES to cook. So, her niche market? Foodies. She attends local restaurant events and cooking classes and turns strangers into friends and clients....
Lord help her, but she was instantly drawn to his scent - a mixture of smoke and salt and mystery - as well as his strength. The pulse of his heart, the hum of blood through his veins, the aura of...
Some people are like "the great wall of china", you can't reach them.
The real Holy Spirit is not an electrifying current of ecstatic energy, a mind-numbing babbler of irrational speech, or a cosmic genie who indiscriminately grants self-centered wishes for health and...
He stayed right where he was, planted against the door, afraid to move. He'd walked into a room filled with enemies, never flinching, and would do it over and over, but this woman held the power to...
The mind is much more interesting than the body.
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?
I never wanted to be an actor. It was something I found a passion for; it wasn't there immediately.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
