«In memory of the countless men and women of all creeds, nations, and races who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in the Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.»

That is why I argued that to counteract the state of ignorance and stupidity that could bring to workers the mechanical nature of their tasks, education was indispensable and should be financed, for...

Literature is pure artifice, but great literature manages to disguise it and mediocre literature betrays it.

Because the novel was not only a way to materialize a vocation but also a means of contributing to social struggle, to the fight between good and evil from an ethical point of view.

He continued receiving the salary he was entitled to as a university professor when he reached retirement age.

The committee became an aristocracy and created a religion to justify their privileges.

Sometimes, relationships built on damage are more persistent than those based on love.

The dead steps down from the guillotine, carrying under his arm his sacrificed head. Apple trees are in blossom. The dead makes his way to the village tavern, and everyone watches. There, he pulls a...

No one is ever safe. So why not live as much as you can?

She thought you should be able to keep your private life private for any reason or for no reason. She even felt that way about politicians - so long as they weren't hypocrites - and worried that we'd...

It was the women of Afghanistan, my mother believed, who - once they'd been granted access to books and education - would be the salvation of the country

Everyone doesn't have to do everything... People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging things created...

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there's always got to be some of it to keep them going.

Justine watched two azure moons traverse the sparkling smear of Wall stars. They were in very strange orbits. And moving impossibly fast – actually accelerating. 'Oh my God,' she gasped. The Raiel's...

"That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty."

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before John Owen

One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?

Nothing is really lost. Shapes change. But it's never completely gone.

Refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.

None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, then you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing, which...

That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and accoutrements were by definition...

Good. Because we were thinking of a place kind of like this one in Oregon. Atticus had already told his attorney, Hal Hauk, to find a suitable place near or in the Willamette Valley.

I promptly forgot about him and prepared a blend of Creativi - Tea, since I had some fantasy role - players coming in for their weekly dungeon crawl, and the DM always wanted a little something extra...

Well, if that's how it happened, I don't like how Etain was never given a choice. Both Midhir and Eochaid should have been kicked in the marble bag for behaving like her hoo - ha was something they...

Helgarson won't tell me, but it must have been bad. His fangs pop out if you just say 'Thor' aloud, and he hunts carpenters simply because they use hammers.

Now, I will be the first to admit that human life was not worth much to my generation in the Iron Age, but Flidais and her kind are forever rooted in Bronze Age morality, which goes something like...