Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D...

True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it's a losing...

There's a quick and easy way to test whether an activity involves skill: ask whether you can lose on purpose.

Our ability to analyze data has grown far more sophisticated than our thinking about what we ought to do with the results.

Success is the bridge between insanity and credibility.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

Lately she'd been listening to books on tapes, fat womanly novels as she thought of them. Maeve Binchy, Gail Godwin, Marian Keyes. Pat Conroy -

Yeah, I said. And I'm gonna look just like him. The black cat paused and looked me over. No you ain't baby. That cat is a prince, man. He is royalty in exile. You ain't never gonna look like that.

I have started taking the pills and I pray that everyone is right, that I have been sabotaged by my own brain chemicals. And that the little blue pill is going to put things right again.

In that moment, feeling my isolation in a way I never had before, I thought about calling her. But I didn't want to hear the fear and disappointment in her voice. I didn't want to deal with her...

Some fusty fellow, perhaps Samuel Johnson, had once said that every man was sorry if he hadn't been a soldier. She

I never believed Jacob was human. But sometimes, like a lot of predators, he did a decent impression of one.

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narrow corridor helping him to navigate around obstacles, namely the dope users in

For long centuries monasteries had been virtually the only institutions that cared about books. Even in the stable and prosperous times of the Roman Empire, literacy rates, by our standards at least,...

The financial penalties for murder, for example, were graded according to the 'worth' of the victim. It was a harsh and divisive society, only made possible by the continuous exploitation of the...

… anxiety was, for her, a form of prayer.

The bush is not merely a holiday destination; it's where you learn how insignificant you truly are.

"I shall write an ode!" threatened Philip direfully. "Ah no, that is too much!" cried De Vangrisse with feeling.

"Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that," he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better."

Horatia said eagerly: Oh, you will take m - me instead? No, said Rule, with a faint smile. I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my...

"Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!"

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a vague sense of what was happening in the world, a vague sense of having meant someone before. It...

What is such a believer, whose very life depends upon the daily bread of the living Word of God, supposed to do when God is silent?

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to. "What do they sacrifice?" asked Shadow. "Their time, mostly," said Lucy. "Sometimes each other."

Likewise, Whole Foods has built an enormous industry helping customers avoid the consequences of overly processed foods, and more recently Trader Joe's has come along to help customers avoid the...

As Sharon Poczter, professor of economics at Cornell, explains, The antiquated rhetoric of 'having it all' disregards the basis of every economic relationship: the idea of trade-offs. All of us are...

In that first deal, I said too much. This was not a shock to anyone who knows me. Once I identified this weakness, I sought help to correct it. I turned to Maureen Taylor, a communications coach, who...