For nothing is lost, nothing is ever lost. There is always the clue, the canceled check, the smear of lipstick, the footprint in the canna bed, the condom on the park path, the twitch in the old...

So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard...

risk winding up pushing up grass in the Tinnicum Swamps out by the airport, if something went wrong.

The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit

Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a...

"I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me."

Every time I annoy him he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house. Simon pointed at Jace.

What of Art? - It is a malady. - - Love? - An Illusion. - - Religion? - The fashionable substitute for Belief. - - You are a sceptic. - Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. - - What are you? -...

Each day say to yourself that you are the best, the strongest, and the most deadly. Eventually you will start to believe it. Finally it will come true. It came true for me. I am Grimalkin.

Seeking advice is a subtle way to invite someone to make a commitment to us.

Nobody is perfect. Everyone who has ever loved someone has had to overlook something.

If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn't be sogrouchy in the morning.

If we now take a Kaluza - Klein theory defined in 4+N dimensions and then curl up N dimensions, we will find that the equations split into two pieces. The first piece is Einstein's usual equations,...

Without a scientist, there is no future. The handsome and attractive characters may earn society's admiration, but all the wonderful inventions related to the future are the result of the work of...

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.

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 -

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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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...

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

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!"

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

Even today, gender-blind evaluations still result in better outcomes for women. Unfortunately, most jobs require face-to-face interviews. All of us, myself included, are biased, whether we admit it or...

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

It's like a government agency that really works.