What is it about guys named Adam?

... and the only reason he came out at all, during that period after he left Frankie, when he wanted to go away and hide forever, was the crazy compulsion with which we resolved all the tangled...

Tears don't make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores.

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper...

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

I tell him there'll be an army waiting for him, and your friend is only concerned with the color of their uniforms. What's this really about? Max shrugged. "A girl." I glared at Max. "Dude. Shut up."

People don't get gentler as they get older but rather, harder.

I truly believe that people do the best they can.

Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. Why is the world like this? He shivered. Why does it feel so cold, so hard? A smile flickered on John's face, one that was neither happy nor sad. What...

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Everything is a tool - a boot, a sled, a dog - and a hand, an arm, even a man! If it breaks down you throw it away and you march on! It's brutal, yes! And it's ugly. But anything else is sentiment and...

I wanted her body and soul, but body first.

Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it.

I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.

Humans, when you talk to me about them... I more likely see them as an unsolvable unloggable problem... than something else.

What's a man worth without love? $.89 worth of chemicals. Hawkeye Pierce

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of inoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices.

Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms...

The guy had guts - I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them.

To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big jet engines rising in pitch, as the plane they are sitting in swivels at the end of the runway and, straining...

Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable - - and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had...

The heart is what is important. There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

We were so created to worship God that it is probably embedded in our spiritual DNA itself!

He was, out of all sight {as I remember him}, the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.

I happen to be partial to humans - most, anyway. Clowns, not so much. Those evil bastards never stop smiling.

Enemies may unite to eliminate a common threat, but never without a wary eye fixed on their ally.