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...

The entire rationale for fighting in Vietnam was rooted in faith. Faith that his elected leaders and military bosses knew what they were doing and that the calculation that had placed his life at such...

Explore the rugged edge of thought. Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness.

Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier.

"Happy?" He stared her down. "You can't expect happiness. If it comes along - consider yourself lucky, but that's not what life's about."

You're twelve years old. One horrible day your best friend's family moves to another town. You speak to your friend on the telephone now and then, but telephone conversations just aren't the same as...

I wanted to learn more of love - that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.

Rollan didn't like when his horse had to walk near a drop-off, as they were now. He was allergic to the whole falling thing.

Brandon's greatest regret is that he has but one life to give for Gondor.

Considering the circumstances, Rollan figured being alive was the same thing as being okay.

...watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.

If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu {and all songs say it}. If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but...

All I think when I look at you is hallelujah

There is a black-and-white picture in my hallway, of me, Nancy, and Lizzie in the bath, when Nancy was eight months old and Lizzie two-and-a-half. I am gently biting Lizzie. Nancy, in turn, is gumming...

Like books before them, each of these songs, I know, could in the end prove to be the thing I need: a way out. A place to go.

I'm crying, and I am crying at the door. Honestly, the house is too crowded for crying. I've already tried inside—the person is explaining, amid sobs, why they're crying to someone, and then halfway...

The working class do things differently. I can hear it. I can see we are not wrong. We are not just poor people who have not yet evolved into something else - i.e., people with money. We are something...

Why can't we just loosen our belts, take off our heels, and cheerfully rot, like the boys?

He had what we often lack - the maturity to see that faith isn't something you either have or don't have, but something that ebbs and flows in the life and soul of every individual. Doubt isn't the...

Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola {Haiti and the Dominican Republic today}: "In fourteen hundred and ninety - five, sixteen hundred people he...

Who do we think we are - we small creatures with three - pound brains, a few limited senses, and life spans barely long enough to get to know our neighborhood, much less the planet, and much less the...

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.

You explore the possibilities because you can't steer a parked car.

People deal with their shadow side in a number of ways, the most common way being to find outside enemies and point to them, demonizing them and blaming them for long lists of perceived evils. This...

We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust.

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Would it hurt to die?

"I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know my son... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life."

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

He that's convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still.