The enemy gate is down.
You remind me of the babe.What babe?The babe with the power.What power?The power of voodoo.Who do?You do.
None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.
You remind me of a man.What?A man with the power?
He wanted enlightenment just as she did, just as they all did. Right, he said, handing her back the flyer, but where do I park?
The earth was running out of resources, global warming was beginning to be recognized as science fact and not science fiction, and if man was to evolve to play a part in things instead of being just...
crossed the room and lit a cigarette, though smoking was discouraged on campus and about as stupid and self-destructive an activity as anything our species has devised.
At that, Jeremias idly swung the war club to his shoulder, where the weight of the ball bowed it like the arm of a catapult. The door stood open still and the elemental scent of the land rose to his...
For some strange reason, probably having to do with the moon shot, UFOs and the accoustic quality of the snow-laden air, her voice seemed to boom out across the water as if she were leading cheers...
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and the failure...
And music. What would a wedding be without it?
How could I forget? I'm her godmother.' Sasha knew Claire so well, knew she needed a moment now, some space to think, so she didn't press. But she was far from finished with the problem. 'Have you...
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.
But it was on now, humming to life: a flicker, an adjustment of the dial, a new announcer, his voice shaken and hollow. Then the first image appeared, and it was devastating, the real world, the world...
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.
fraction of a second, before asking
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
For weeks in advance of the date he would storm and rage and fulminate about the inequity of it all, and the old contumacious fire-breathing spirit arose like a phoenix from the ashes of his...
You can't be serious," he said. "You mean this is the big secret, this is why you screwed us all over-because of some forgotten shit that went down hundreds of years ago?
they were convicted of high treason and armed rebellion against the authority of the Crown {the brick constituting, for Stephanus' purposes, a potentially lethal weapon-lethal, in any case, to...
My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for...
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
I did that on purpose,' Lucille Miller told Erwin Sprengle later, 'to save myself from letting my heart do something crazy.
They caught him again, at the foot of the woods, and he fought them with his teeth and his claws but they were bigger, stronger, and they carried him back as they always had and always would because...
Being happy boils down to three things. Something to do. Someone to love. And something to look forward to.
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My...
but outside, in the desert, where the air was thin and light pollution unheard of, you could see right up into the back molars of the universe.
My fellow drivers, riding their brakes and clinging to the wheel as if it were some kind of voodoo fetish that would protect them against drunks, curves, potholes, errant coyotes and sheet metal...
But for now-for this thumping, glorious, wind-scoured moment-he was sailing.
There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the...
...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?
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....
