. . . to the Bleekmen, we Earthmen may very well be hypomanic types, whizzing about at enormous velocity, expending huge amounts of energy over nothing at all.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
No one gets left behind, remember?
Thank you, Mr. Bibleman, the robot said. 'I am very proud of you.
Drawing is simply another way of seeing, which we don't really do as adults, says cartoonist Chris Ware. We're all going around in a cloud of remembrance and anxiety, he says, and the act of drawing...
I'm a scientist who thinks it wise to enter the doors of creation not with a lion tamer's whip and chair, but with the reverence humankind has traditionally summoned for entering places of worship: a...
He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping....
Every person who was hurt was only hurting because they loved someone.
Life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. - Exodus, 21:23
The Germans will be beaten in a few months. And Japan will be beaten a few months after that. If I were to give up my life now, it wouldn't be for my country. It would be for Cathcart and Korn. So I'm...
It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.
When the going get's weird, the weird turn pro.
Even when he cheated he couldn't win, because the people he cheated against were always better at cheating too.
There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.
I'm not much but I'm all I have.
The slightest human contact was immediate joy.
Rawson has an idea of what it is like to eat without perceiving tastes, because she has talked to cancer patients whose taste receptors have been destroyed by radiation treatments. The situation is...
it is a comfortable disposition leading us to expect that the wisdom of providence or the folly of our friends, the mysteries of luck or the still greater mystery of our high individual value in the...
We tell ourselves stories in order to live
Art value always goes up once the artist's associated with fucked-up things such as cutting off his own ear like Van Gogh, or marrying his teenage cousin like Poe, or having his minions murder a...
They weren't a bad family. At least they loved one another, cared for one another. Most of the time anyway.
will always be there for you, and so will your dad. We might fight and argue, but we are family at bottom, eh?
This is what happens to those who sit still. People who did nothing ended up with nothing lives lived on nothing furniture inside a nothing space doing nothing watching nothing being nothing. They...
People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes...
You wouldn't be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.
Havin loved enough and lost enough,I'm no longer searching,just opening,no longer trying to make sense of painbut trying to be a soft and sturdy homein which real things can land.These are the...
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, adhering to Science for Peace, wrote: «First of all, knowledge frees people from ignorance and makes them aware of their rights and duties. Those who do not...
The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.
Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!
We can be confident in our dealings with the world when what the world sees is the outer person, with all the outer person's defences: the intimacy of a love affair is a different matter altogether....
Not aging is not the same as living
Every straight line can be forced into a curve!
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
