There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

It's a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, Momma, do we believe in winter?

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be...

You don't know what you are.

To be free of customs: "Custom clouds the true face of things."

unspeakably poor, because she could give nothing and only received, with

They did nothing to us, they merely plunged us into absolute nothingness, because it is known that nothing exerts as much pressure on the human soul as nothingness...

Consequently, immune systems at this level can be defined a priori as embodied expectations of injury and the corresponding programmes of protection and repair.

A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.

It is a better world. A place where we are responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into...

Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?

Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn't that why people watch Animal Planet? Escape. Maybe that's why we watch. Animal behavior is elemental. It takes us back to a simpler time.

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

In the sense of movement a boat is a living thing

This wasn't a hunger for a bigger house or a faster car. This was a far deeper hunger: a hunger for living with more meaning, with more festivity and more satisfaction.

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not.

"Do you mean to spend your whole life running away?" Tyrion asked before she could slip back out the door. That stopped her. Her cheeks turned a bright pink, and he was afraid she was about to start...

He was too clever. If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Puritanism, wrote H.L. Mencken, whose lifetime spanned the first progressive era, is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.

The richer and more market-oriented societies have become, the nicer people have behaved.

Extraordinary that those who command the perquisites of place are those most ready to ignore them! It is as if the blessings of Providence are specious, and notable only in their absence. Ah well, I...

The heresy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next generation.